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

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.

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

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

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

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter

Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.