Thomas Harris Quotes
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You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
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Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.
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Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.
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Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
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It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.
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I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.
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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
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Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
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In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
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I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
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… 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.
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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
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I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.
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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I arrive at my office at 8:37. I stay in the office until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I get in my Porsche and I'm home at 2:03 because the one-way streets make it faster for me to drive. And between 8:36 am and 2 pm, I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
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What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.
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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.
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Ready when you are, Sergeant Pempbry.
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.