Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

I have killed no one and I have ordered no one to be killed.

A murder is not a martyr. He or she is just a murderer.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Let's say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don't worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you're the one who shot him.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

I don't believe in murder.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

It's wrong to kill.

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.

I read a lot about serial killers.

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.

I wasn't the man. If you want someone to kill people, you had to find somebody else.

What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

Execute murderers, abortionists, accessories.

As a society are we going to murder people to show that murder is wrong

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

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

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

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

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!'

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.