Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't 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….

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind..

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling..

I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them..

I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It'….

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it..

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

Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination..

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval..

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself..

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

Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place..

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt..

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms lik….

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it..

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

In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end….

And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real..

It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could f….

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