“Страх быть примитивной – вот ваше единственное богатство.”

“But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.”

“I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.”

“When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.”

“The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.”

“Baby needs a new pair of shoes,' he said. 'My baby doesn't need any shoes.”

“They sat in a row on the couches and in wheelchairs listening to the radio, their faded eyes fixed on the fish or on nothing or something they saw a long time ago.Francis would always remember the shuffle of feet on linoleum in the hot and buzzing day, and the smell of stewed tomatoes and cabbage from the kitchen, the smell of old people like meat wrappers dried in the sun, and always the radio.”