- Dr. Abel Gideon: You intend me to be my own last supper.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Yes.
- Dr. Abel Gideon: How does one politely refuse a dish in circumstances such as these?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: One doesn't. The tragedy is not to die, Abel, but to be wasted.
- Dr. Abel Gideon: [Uneasily, Gideon eats his own flesh] My compliments to the chef.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: [smiles]
- Jack Crawford: Hannibal Lecter is not the Chesapeake Ripper.
- Will Graham: If the Ripper is killing, you can bet Hannibal Lecter is having a dinner party. You and I probably sipped wine while swallowing the people who who we were trying to give justice, Jack.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: [Before chopping Abel's leg meat] Shall I carve?
- Dr. Abel Gideon: I think you already have.
- Dr. Alana Bloom: I was thinking about funerals, and how often they make us want sex.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: It's one in the eye for death.
- Dr. Alana Bloom: Not that... This wasn't... Funeral sex or...
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Of course it was. We both just buried a friend. We buried Will
- Dr. Alana Bloom: You have to find a way to deal with what happened to you.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: I'm metabolizing the experience by composing a new piece of music.
- Dr. Alana Bloom: Harpsichord or Theremin?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Harpsichord. Stravinsky said a true composer thinks about his unfinished work the whole time. He's not always conscious of this, but he's aware of it when he suddenly knows what to do.
- Dr. Alana Bloom: And do you know what to do?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: I need to get my appetite back.