I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.

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

I cry as the laughter inside me drowns and descends into the water with the ghosts of our union.

Our love is strong. Why carry on without me?

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Three most important things in life, surf, surf and surf.

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

The wise does not think that only he is right -thus he knows the truth.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.