"Well, you got me. How come it took you such a long time?"

“I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time.”

“It wasn’t as dark and scary as it sounds. I had a lot of fun…killing somebody’s a funny experience.”

"You constantly think about getting caught, but the rush is worth the risk."

"I wish I could stop but I could not. I had no other thrill or happiness."

“Yes, I do have remorse, but I’m not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I’ve always wondered myself why I don’t feel more remorse.”

"The words, 'I'm sorry' will never come out, for they would be a lie. I am more than willing to give up my life for what I have done, to have God judge me and send me to hell for eternity."

“We’ve all got the power in our hands to kill, but most people are afraid to use it. The ones who aren’t afraid, control life itself.”

“I remember there was actually a sexual thrill . . . you hear that little pop and pull their heads off and hold their heads up by the hair. Whipping their heads off, their body sitting there. That’d get me off.”

"I always had the desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. I always seemed to enjoy everything that hurt. The desire to inflict pain, that is all that is uppermost."

“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”

“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing...I was born with the evil one standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world, and he has been with me since.”

"You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!"

"I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in us all."

“What a thrill that will be if I have to die in the electric chair. It will be the supreme thrill. The only one I haven't tried.”

"That was just done as a prank. I found a dog, and cut it open just to see what The insides looked like, and for some reason I thought it would be a fun prank to stick the head on a stake and set it out in the woods. And brought one of my friends back to look at it and said I'd stumbled upon that in the woods. Just for shock value….I wasn't into any occult then, it was just a prank."

“I like children, they are tasty.”

"The women I killed were filth - bastard prostitutes who were littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit."

"I am sorry for only two things. These two things are I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life-time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damned human race. I wish the entire human race had one neck and I had my hands around it"

"One side of me says, I’d like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder what her head would look like on a stick?"

"I took the right leg of that woman's body, from the knee to the hip, took the fat off and ate it while she stared at the other girl. When I bit into it she just urinated right there."

“I actually think I may be possessed with demons…I was dropped on my head as a kid.”

"To me, this world is nothing but evil, and my own evil just happened to come out 'cause of the circumstances of what I was doing."

"That is my ambition, to have killed more people - more helpless people - than any man or woman who has ever lived."