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.

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

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

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?

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.

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.

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