The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship.
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
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.
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.
He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.
I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things.
I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The point of my writing is to touch upon the systematics of prayer and on how we arrive at a method of achieving spiritual coherence in our lives.