It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. Thomas Harris More Quotes by Thomas Harris More Quotes From Thomas Harris I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head. Thomas Harris rays drs found Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death. Thomas Harris funeral eye sex Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time. Thomas Harris wave body long I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor. Thomas Harris three writing window 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 of God. Thomas Harris simple fire evil It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told. Thomas Harris lambs skins doe 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. Thomas Harris echoes dark wrestling You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . . Thomas Harris thinking 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. Thomas Harris iron elements thinking 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. Thomas Harris empathy perception views Because it's his bad luck to be the best. Thomas Harris bad-luck being-the-best luck I am the dragon, and you call me insane. Thomas Harris call-me dragons insane Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice. Thomas Harris half-life gratitude half 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. Thomas Harris fighting bye promise I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me. Thomas Harris ugly happens 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. Thomas Harris home writing morning On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife. Thomas Harris wife serious giving It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw. Thomas Harris starlings benefits elbows There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt. Thomas Harris able emotion common Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion. Thomas Harris lions answers thinking
