Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.

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

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

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

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.