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

that there had to be a place in the world for Mischa, a prime place vacated for her, and I came to think, Clarice, that the best place in the world was yours.

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

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...

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.