On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

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

Reflection can be its own reward.

What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.

There is plenty of work for love to do.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.

Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.