Augusten Burroughs Quotes

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?

Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing , from what I heard. -Jess about Doug p. 107

Tell that to the BTK killer,” I said. “He was a churchgoer, raised two kids, married, and resisted the urge to kill for decades. He was a person, but he was a monster, too

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

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.

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.

'Criminal Minds' consists of stories told within the framework of the FBI behavioral science unit. It's about serial profiling.

I love the idea of getting into the mind of the criminal.

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.

Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics, and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

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

Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

With a character like James Bulger, you have to approach him as a human. No one wakes up in the morning and says, as they are brushing their teeth, 'I am going to do something evil today.' He was a businessman - in his business, the violence was just part of his job, let's say. It was also the language of the people he associated with and opposed.

I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.

Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.

It's not terrifying to watch 'Mindhunter,' necessarily, but it's just unsettling. You can find Aileen Wuornos just talking to a camera. It's hard to watch. Her eyeballs, they are just terrifying.

If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?