Serial Quotes

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles.

Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.

I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

I'm a serial monogamist.

I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

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.

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

I think serial monogamy says it all.

I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.