Truman Capote Quotes

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

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

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

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.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

Killing and gangbanging, that's just wrong.

Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn't too nice a thing to do.

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.

Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.

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

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.

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.

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

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.

Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.

Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

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

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.

The bastards murdered half my family.