Nothing made me happen. I happened.

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

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Before every great reward, comes the footprints of persistency, consistency, perseverance, courage, faith and patience.

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.

If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with

Alcohol kills slowly. Good, I'm in no hurry.

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.