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

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

Ready when you are, Sergeant Pempbry.

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

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.

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