One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

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?

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

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

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