“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”

“You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.”

“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.”