It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

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

There are different kinds of happy, some kinds don't need any proof-Ellie O'Neill, This is What Happy Looks Like

Time travel..will never be impossible forever.

Expecting to receive a rebuke, her heart lifted when she read the words on the page, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.

Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures.