The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

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

Thinking can change through the pronunciation of the word of God in your life, because it contains enough strength and energy to change your sub-consciousness

Be content with what you have. You have enough to live happy life.

It is the fool who declares ‘I am ascending the summit, ’ while he’s toddling around in the ditch.

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.