Hannibal Lecter: I've read the case files. Have you? Everything you need to find him is right there in those pages.Clarice Starling: Then tell me how.Hannibal Lecter: First principles, Clarice: simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius, "Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?" What does he do, this man you seek?Clarice Starling: He kills women.Hannibal Lecter: No, that is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does, what needs does he serve by killing?Clarice Starling: Anger, social acceptance, and, uh, sexual frustration ...Hannibal Lecter: No, he covets. That's his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer, now.Clarice Starling: No. We just ...Hannibal Lecter: No. We begin by coveting what we see every day.