List of Thomas Harris Quotes

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 Together By Blank Plaster. Other Rooms Hold Sound And Motion, Great Snakes Wrestling And Heaving In The Dark And Lit In Flashes. Pleas And Screaming Fill Some Places On The Grounds Where Hannibal Himself Cannot Go. But The Corridors Do Not Echo Screaming, And There Is Music If You Like.

You Cant Reduce Me To A Set Of Influences.

He Moves Smoothly And Slowly, Carrying His Concentration Like A Brimming Cup.

On A Related Subject, Signore Pazzi, I Must Confess To You: I'm Giving Serious Thought To Eating Your Wife.

It Occured To Starling How Much Roden Would Benefit From An Elbow Smash In The Hinge Of His Jaw.

Shiloh Isn’t Haunted – Men Are Haunted. Shiloh Doesn’t Care.

I Found, And Find, The Scrutiny Of Dr. Lecter Uncomfortable, Intrusive, Like The Humming Of Your Thoughts When They X-ray Your Head.

Funerals Often Make Us Want Sex-it's One In The Eye For Death.

The Most Stable Elements, Clarice, Appear In The Middle Of The Periodic Table, Roughly Between Iron And Silver. Between Iron And Silver. I Think That Is Appropriate For You.

I'll Confess It Is Pleasant To Look At You Asleep. You're Quite Beautiful, Clarice.

I Would Not Have Had That Happen To You. Discourtesy Is Unspeakably Ugly To Me.

The Advantage Of Beating A Mute Is He Can't Tell On You.