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

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

“I tell my students to write of their true subjects. How will they know when they are writing of their true subjects? By the ease with which they write. By their reluctance to stop writing. By the headachy, even guilty, joyous sensation of having done something that must be done, having confessed emotions thought unconfessable, having said what had seemed should remain unsaid. If writing is difficult, stop writing. Begin again with another subject. The true subject writes itself, it cannot be silenced. Give shape to your dreams, your day-dreams, cultivate your day-dreams and their secret meanings will come out.”

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

“My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.) ”

“You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.”