Thomas Harris Quotes

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

Nothing made me happen. I happened.

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

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

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.

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 that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.