Jhonen Vasquez Quotes

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

Everything has to do with murder.

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

Bluebeard, who said to Scottland Yard, How do I know how many wives I've killed? I'm not an accountant! Never got a dinner!

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the wrong question." Silas raised an eyebrow. "How so?" "Well," said Bod. "If I go outside in the world, the question isn't who will keep me safe from him?" "No?" "No. It's who will keep him safe from me?

'It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due.'

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.