I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.

I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

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