“Eric: Wow, looks like someone had fun last night. Lisa: The parts I remember were awesome. Eric: Do you remember just having dinner by yourself and going to bed? Lisa: I sat alone at a bar and read a book about serial killers. Eric: Wow, sexy.”— Lacey Marisa Friedman, Lisa, Lisa Schwartz, imdb.com
“Matt Damon: Just take it from 'It's a good course.' Ben Affleck: Oh, now you're the director. Matt Damon: Hey shove it, Bounce-boy. Let's remember who talked who into doing this shit in the first place. Talking me into Dogma was one thing, but this... Ben Affleck: Hey look, I'm sorry I dragged you a…”— Kevin Smith, imdb.com
“Inadequate people have to try and feel worthy, and one way to feel worthy is to find someone else unworthy or inferior.”— John Douglas, amazon.com
“Scully, I gave up profiling before I gave up monsters. You’ve seen one serial killer, you’ve seen ’em all.”— Chris Carter, Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, imdb.com
“You will undoubtedly notice that I am confining myself here to characterizations of men. By definition, this is sexist, but by definition, men are the problem.”— John Douglas, amazon.com
“They reach a point in their lives where they feel no one is paying attention to them. So they take it upon themselves to perpetrate this kind of crime.”— John Douglas, amazon.com
“Mass murderers are different from serial ones. Those around him thought of him as weird or strange.”— John Douglas, amazon.com
“These killers are such inadequate people, such losers, that they know they cannot get away and won't give others the satisfaction of controlling them or bringing them to justice.”— John Douglas, amazon.com
“He helped her with her chair when sitting down at the table; he opened doors for her. She later said that he made her smile every day.”— steve lehto, amazon.com
“The FBI estimates that there are less that 50 serial killers active in the United States today. We don't get together at conventions, share trade secrets, or exchange Christmas cards... but sometimes I wonder what it's like for the others.”— Daniel Cerone, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
“It was a man and he was begging, and pleading, and praying, I guess. And he was ‘Please, God’n all over the place. So I told him he could have a half an hour to pray to God and if God could come down and change the circumstances, he'd have that time. But God never showed up and he never changed the…”— Richard Kuklinski, dailystar.co.uk
“My friend, there's more than one way to do it…there's more than one way to skin something.”— Richard Kuklinski, youtube.com
“By now you know what I liked most was the hunt, the challenge of what the thing was. The killing for me was secondary. I got no rise as such out of it…for the most part. But the figuring it out, the challenge—the stalking and doing it right, successfully—that excited me a lot. The greater the odds a…”— Richard Kuklinski, amazon.com
“Eventually I crossed that invisible line of no return. After years of mental torment, behavioral problems, deep inner struggles and my own rebellious ways, I became the criminal that, at the time, it seemed as if it was my destiny to become.”— David Berkowitz, ariseandshine.org
“Now I was age 22 and this evil force was still reaching out to me. Everywhere I went there seemed to be a sign or a symbol pointing me to Satan. I felt as if something were trying to take control of my life. I began to read The Satanic Bible by the late Anton Lavey who founded the Church of Satan in…”— David Berkowitz, ariseandshine.org
“My parents could not reach me, not even with all of their love. Many times I saw them break down and cry because they saw that I was such a tormented person.”— David Berkowitz, ariseandshine.org
“In 1975, however, I met some guys at a party who were, I later found out, heavily involved in the occult. I had always been fascinated with witchcraft, satanism, and occult things since I was a child. When I was growing up I watched countless horror and satanic movies, one of which was Rosemary's Ba…”— David Berkowitz, ariseandshine.org
“When I was in public school, I was so violent and disruptive that a teacher, who had become so angry at me, grabbed me in a headlock and threw me out of his classroom.”— David Berkowitz, ariseandshine.org