The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

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.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

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.

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.