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

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

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

Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I arrive at my office at 8:37. I stay in the office until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I get in my Porsche and I'm home at 2:03 because the one-way streets make it faster for me to drive. And between 8:36 am and 2 pm, I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.