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

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.

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

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

Sports Illustrated is very serious about their covers. They'll never say, like, 'Oh you got it.'