… 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.

Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.

What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.

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.

… 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 have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.

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...