Ed Kemper Quotes

[Talking about Monte Rissell] ...and like Ed Kemper he was able to convince the psychiatrist he was making excellent progress while he was actually killing human beings. This is kind of a sick version of the old joke about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb. The answer being, just one, but only if the light bulb wants to change.

The second time he was tested, Ed’s score jumped to 145, higher than 99 percent of the population. Ed was not only evil: he was now a certified “Evil Genius,” a designation that pleased him to no end.

Chapter 1: The making of the Co-Ed Killer

That's one thing that amazes me about society. That is, that you can do damn near anything and nobody's gonna say anything or notice.

But they will not be, primarily because the most salient characteristic of the victim-prone person is the conviction that he or she is watched over and protected by the Sun, the Moon, the Wind Goddess, and St. Christopher; and, in short, that it could never happen to him or to her.

That Guy," she warned him, "is a real weirdo. And you're taking a chance leaving him with your parents. You might be surprised to wake up some morning to learn they have been killed.

I wanted to kill my mother since I was eight years old. I’m not proud of that.

I taught women not to hitchhike.

Ed would later conclude that it’s better that some children and teenagers commit suicide or recklessly kill themselves before they grow up to do antisocial things. That something inside them knows the dark path they are headed down. They sense what evil behaviors would manifest in the future. He suggested that society shouldn’t mourn these lost children, but rather understand that what they did was for the best, for the greater good.

He ached for people to “respect my athoratiiii.

I just wanted to see what it felt like to kill grandma,” he famously intoned.

Now you see them. Car pulls over. Now you don’t. Whoosh.