I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

It's hard... to shake off something that's already under your skin.

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

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

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.