Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

… 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.

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

Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.

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

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

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?