"No pupils, just black spots. These were evil eyes that stayed after me long after the interview."
Chap. 1, p. 19

"Murderers, rapists, and child molesters aren't seeking monetary profit from their crimes; in a perverse though sometimes understandable way, they are seeking emotional satisfaction."
Chap. 2, p. 32

"He admitted that his real reason for shooting women was out of resentment toward his own mother, and because of his inability to establish good relationships with women."
Chap. 3, p. 77

"Serial killers are mostly male, white, and in their twenties or thirties at the time of their murders."
Chap. 4, p. 93

"What begins as a fantasy ends as part of a homicidal ritual."
Chap. 4, p. 99

"Every ounce of information we can extract from a killer about his minds and methods gives us more information to track the next one."
Chap. 5, p. 125

"The organized versus the disorganized distinction became the great divide, a fundamental way...