Red Dragon Quotes.

1. "It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination."
- Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

2. "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, Red Dragon

3. "We live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books."
- Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

4. "Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination."
- Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

5. "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."
- Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

6. "Graham had a lot of trouble with taste. Often his thoughts were not tasty. There were no effective partitions in his mind. What he saw and learned touched everything else he knew. Some of the combinations were hard to live with. But he could not anticipate them, could not block and repress. His learned values of decency and propriety tagged along, shocked at his associations, appalled at his dreams; sorry that in the bone arena of his skull there were no forts for what he loved. His associations came at the speed of light. His value judgments were at the pace of a responsive reading. They could never keep up and direct his thinking. He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers. There was nothing he could do about it."
- Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

7. "You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home."
- Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

8. "I am the dragon, and you call me insane."
- Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

9. "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, Red Dragon

10. "Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care."
- Thomas Harris, Red Dragon