Edmund Kemper quotes:

If I killed them, you know, they couldn't reject me as a man. It was more or less making a doll out of a human being . . . and carrying out my fantasies with a doll, a living human doll.

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

I just wanted to see how it felt to shoot Grandma.

It was an urge. . . . . A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where I was taking risks to go out and kill people-risks that normally, according to my little rules of operation, I wouldn't take because they could lead to arrest.

When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part wants to be real nice and sweet, and the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick

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?

You know the head's where everything is at, the brain, eyes, mouth. That's the person. I remember being told as a kid, you cut off the head and the body dies. the body is nothing after the head is cut off... well that's not quite true. With a girl there's a lot left in the girl's body without a head.

With a girl, there's a lot left in the girl's body without a head. Of course, the personality is gone.

The first good-looking girl I see tonight is going to die.

I had thought of annihilating the entire block that I lived on.

I certainly wanted for my mother a nice, quiet easy death like everyone else wants.