Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

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

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