You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

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 truth is helpless when up against perception

At a higher level of consciousness, everything that happens – or does not happen in our life – has a reason behind it

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent.

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.