Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

That sounds weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.

It’s an old story, amigo mío. Be careful of those closest to you because they can do the most damage.

The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Pete

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

Like any man, he had no real protection from an unsolicited kiss from a pretty woman, even one he had just murdered.

You know you’re dealing with a numpty when her saving grace is that she didn’t help to cover up a murder.

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.

If I were a shovel salesman, my biggest customers would be murderers. Oh, and spurned lovers trying to bury the past.

Death cannot stop true love. That’s why it’s pointless for me to try to murder all my adoring female fans.

Ah. And then you kill him.""No," Arkwright replied patiently. "We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{...}

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.

Blood is thicker than water,"The young man saidAs he knifed his friendFor a drooling old bitchAnd a house full of lies.