Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

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

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

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

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

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.

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.

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

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

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

Ours is a love people write stories about...

The hand at her back stroked up and down. Never straying too far south, but igniting a fire inside her that she wanted this fireman to stoke instead of extinguish

I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.

I think of myself as still being about five.

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy."

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

Nobody, at least sitting in my seat , is defending drunk driving. I am not for drunk driving.