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

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

You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .

I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.

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

When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.