All Thomas Harris Quotes
- 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… Afternoon
- It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. Damn
- Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination. Fear
- Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held… Archives
- 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... Breathing
- One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind. Funny
- There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us. Inspirational
- God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again. Creatures
- Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts… Acts
- You cant reduce me to a set of influences. Cant
- 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… Ant
- He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At… Accept
- When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can. Feel
- I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head. Dr
- Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death. Death
- 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… All
- I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor. Floor
- I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti Ate
- When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help. Fox
- Ready when you are Sergeant Pempbry. Funny
- How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home. Bolt
- Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer. Inspirational
- It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told. Doe
- You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . . Begin
- 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… Amount