And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!

Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...

You are never a real guru until you understand that you are serving others and delivering them to the light.

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago - until the Republicans brought them back.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

For the next eight and a half months, you're going to be mine. Every. Night.

The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.