" It was the other war that was going to happen, the one in which we’d all come together, or they would all come to fight me. That was the real reason for The Vampire Lestat. That was the kind of game I was playing. But that other lovely possibility of real revelation and disaster … Well, that added a hell of a lot of spice! "

― Anne Rice , The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)