Quotes from Thomas Harris

I didn't think anything would come of this canvas,' Crawford said. 'Well, what the hell did you expect me to do?' 'The best you can, that's all.' Crawford rose to leave. 'Busy work's been a narcotic for me sometimes, especially after I quit the booze. For you too, I think.' Graham was angry. Crawford was right, of course.

Graham felt that it was she who drew the monster, as surely as a singing cricket attracts death from the redeyed fly.

On the first day his pennant flew from the completed towers, he assembled the prisoners in the kitchen garden, and, mounting his gallows to address them, he released the men to go home, just as he had promised. Many elected to stay in his service, owing to the quality of the provender.

Watch out for the press going in and coming out. Not the real press, the supermarket press. They love Lecter even better than Prince Andrew.

One Washington axiom, proved more times than the Pythagorean theorem, states that in the presence of oxygen, one loud fart with an obvious culprit will cover many small emissions in the same room, provided they are nearly simultaneous.

most psychology is puerile

Crawford got to his feet. "Director Noonan, may I say—" "You may leave, is what you may do," Krendler said.

These are probably dogs

Oh, Reba, I can't stand to watch you burn.

He was casting a big Rapala with three treble hooks which his grandfather had given him. He was fishing too fast, casting again and again, retrieving too fast, until he was red-faced and his tee-shirt stuck to him.

Heavy in her nostrils the smell of the goat.

Experience decorates us.

You said that I, who see more than you, am insane. I, who pushed the world so much further than you, am insane. I have dared more than you, I have pressed my unique seal so much deeper in the earth, where it will last longer than your dust. Your life to mine is a slug track on stone. A thin silver mucus track in and out of the letters on my monument.

You really must look at me when I'm talking to you," Kabakov said. "Are you ready to cooperate? Blink for yes. Die for no.

Al decir que la piedad se esconde en la misma linde del bosque, me refería a la bestia indulgente con garras y fauces feroces y ensangrentadas.

Karla had not been a total loss—she had provided Hans-Peter with some amusement and he was able to sell both her kidneys.

Aunque pudiera verte cada día, siempre recordaría este momento.

The room smelled of wood smoke and rosemary. Silver candelabra

The room smelled of wood smoke and rosemary. Silver candelabra, buried in the garden during the war

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

Nothing made me happen. I happened.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

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

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?