When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

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

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.

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

What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.