… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

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

Your life is your canvas. You are responsible for the beauty of your art.

I hate when men think that money is gonna buy you happiness... I mean, it helps.

I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

State intentions every day. Create action plans to achieve your intention.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.