It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

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

Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

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