Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

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

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

The more thinking minds, the less sinking world!

Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.

To be scorned in the public because of your race is to let you know that you are pregnant with a massive potential about to be delivered

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.

I was having chest pains. Photoshop made it glamorous.

Your success depends on what you do yourself, with your own means

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

No bill works if it doesn't work in a zip code where somebody lives.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.