Thomas Harris Quotes

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

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.

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

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

This ring belongs to the black hand. He killed your dad.

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

In no way do I feel superior to anyone except paedophiles, rapists, murderers, etc.

It's always a fascinating subject - a serial killer let loose on a small community. It always holds, it's always scary.

The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

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.

Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would’ve done everyone a favor. . . .

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

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

All your heroes are dead! I killed them!

Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.

You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.

I am going to kill you," he hissed. She gulped. "Don't you want to lecture me first?" He stared at her with a heavy dose of stupefaction. "I take that back," he said with precisely clipped words. "First I am going to strangle you, and then I am going to kill you." "Here?" she asked doubtfully, looking around. "Won't my dead body look suspicious in the morning?

We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.