Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

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

The future is a split second away.

I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup.

My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.

No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more domestic animals into existence.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy.

One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'