Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

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 mockers will only have your attention only if you give them your attention

To awaken to the living dream within one’s life and remain awake in a world trying to lull everyone to sleep involves repeated struggle, yet also presents something truly worth fighting for.

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.

Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do.

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.