“Ready when you are Sergeant Pempbry.”

“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.”

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

“In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior...”

“When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.”

“How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.”

“Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.”