“I just—at this time I had made a pact with the Devil, I had allowed this satanic thing to control me, and I felt these paranormal powers.”— David Berkowitz, transcripts.cnn.com
“When I was growing up, I was so disruptive in school and had so many emotional problems, behavioral problems, that the school officials told my parents, you know, you're going to have to—to keep David in school, you're going to have to take him to a child psychologist. They made some kind of arrange…”— David Berkowitz, transcripts.cnn.com
“Yes, there were several times that at the beginning, when I first came to prison, I was very suicidal. And I saw no hope in living. I was disgusted with my life. I was angry at a lot of people. I felt betrayed, confused, and I saw no hope. So there were some times when I did try to commit suicide.”— David Berkowitz, transcripts.cnn.com
“Yes, in 1979, another inmate—I guess to make a name for himself—tried to take my life. And he stuck me when I wasn't looking with a razor and opened up the whole side of my neck. And it was a miracle that I survived. When I went down to the prison infirmary, I walked down there on my own and I didn'…”— David Berkowitz, transcripts.cnn.com
“I wouldn't say I had a plan. I just felt driven. There was just so much in me that was driving me to destroy myself at the time.”— David Berkowitz, transcripts.cnn.com
“God has given me a lot of strength and a lot of hope to make it and to endure and to survive. He has brought me—he's done some miracles in my life, and he's brought me through a lot of things that maybe others would not have survived.”— David Berkowitz, transcripts.cnn.com
“I find the newspaper not wirting about the poem on Vain unamusing. A little paragraph would have enought. I knom it not the news media fault. The Police Cheif he keep things quiet, and doesn't let the pubbic know there a psycho running around lose strangling mostly women, there 7 in the ground; who…”— Dennis Rader, splashmans.wikispaces.com
“Oh, sure. I'm sure there will be doubters. Many of the men who are in here in this prison are in here for violent crimes, including murder, probably a greater majority of them, and really only a fraction of those have ever turned to Christ or found, as people say, religion. It's not what people thin…”— David Berkowitz, transcripts.cnn.com
“I've learned that God has been showing me to forgive myself, because it's in the Bible that God -- in the Old Testament and in the New -- that God forgives sins for those who come to him through faith in Christ. And I did that. And I feel that God has completely forgiven me, and he's taught me how t…”— David Berkowitz, transcripts.cnn.com
“I look back with just regret. I just -- at this time I had made a pact with the devil, I had allowed this satanic thing to control me, and I felt these paranormal powers. I know that sounds so hard to understand, you know, bit that's...that's what was -- that's what was happening, and I felt somehow…”— David Berkowitz, transcripts.cnn.com