“Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted.Shiloh doesn’t care.”

“We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.”

“When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.”

“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.”