Mark David Chapman quotes:

I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of me must be the Devil.

I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.

I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.

I just shot John Lennon.

There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon.

I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.

Mr. Lennon would want me free, and I'd like to clear that up.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.

I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved.

I remember thinking, "The bullets are working" I think I felt a little regret that they were working.

I wanted to be videotaped.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

I wasn't angry the night I shot him.

It is good to be skeptical, to ask "is this really true?," to take nothing at face value. It is not good to blind yourself to what you can see is true, useful, or beautiful because you are afraid to trust.

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.