Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

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

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

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

Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

I’ve crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you. I love you. I’ve done nothing in my life worth more than that.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

We must get out of materialism.