Because it's his bad luck to be the best.
You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
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.
I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter
Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.