If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.
Most of the people at the ranch were just people you did not want, people that were alongside the road.
Total paranoia is just total awareness.
If you spit in my face and smack me in the mouth and throw me into solitary confinement for nothing... what do you think's gonna happen when i get out of here?
Believe me, if I started murdering people there'd be none of ya left.
You eat meat with your teeth and you kill things that are better than you are, and in the same respect you say how bad and even killers that your children are. You make your children what they are.
If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.
Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once...twice...sold to the drama queen at the corner.
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.