Thomas Harris Quotes
We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.
Harris, Thomas. Hannibal. Delacorte Press, 1999.
Niles shared with his close friend his great fear of a Civil War between South and North. He published in Baltimore (Maryland then being a slave state) and saw the slavery issue as leading the nation to national conflict three decades before it actually happened. As a distinguished Southerner he was respected and influential in the North where his Register was widely circulated. He himself however opposed slavery, and this made many of his attempts to prevent civil war ineffective as the more rabid Southerners saw anyone opposed to slavery as an enemy. See his editorial warning about the Civil War: {615640}.
William Thomas Harris III is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. The majority of his works have been adapted into films and television, the most notable being The Silence of the Lambs, which became only the third film in Academy Awards history to sweep the Oscars in major categories.
