Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris
Thomas Harrisis an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. All of his works have been made into films, the most notable being the multi-Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs, which became only the third film in Academy Award history to sweep the Oscars in major categories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth11 April 1940
CityJackson, TN
CountryUnited States of America
It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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.
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.
Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
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.
Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.
Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.