James Alan Fox Quotes

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.

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

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?

I'm an average person.

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

Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

A lot of times when they catch a guy who killed twenty-seven people, they say, He was a loner. Well, of course he was a loner; he killed everyone he came in contact with.

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

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.

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.

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.

In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal.

I read a lot about serial killers.

I'm an absolutely normal guy.

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

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.

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.

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.

I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

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

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.

'Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?' [...] '"When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right."' I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. 'What does the other part of him think?' Hamlin asks tentatively. 'What her head would look like on a stick...'

You shoot another guy—well, okay, this is Baltimore. You shoot three guys, it’s time to admit you have a problem.