“I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.”

“I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.”

“I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter”

“On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.”

“I'm going to cut you loose. With all due respect, Doctor, if you fuck with me I'll shoot you dead, here and now. Do you understand that?"- Clarice"Perfectly."- Hannibal Lecter "Do right and you'll live through this." -Clarice”

“What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.”

“Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.”