He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.

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

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

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.

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.