Richard Ramirez quotes:

A book I suggest to everybody is called, "Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain. It's about Satan and his visit here. A good book.

I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence holds any terror for me. When I was sentenced to death, it didn't hold anything for me.

I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil, legions of the night - night breed - repeat not the errors of the Night Stalker and show no mercy.

My mother and father used to take me to church in Mexico and Texas, wer I used to live. The huge figures of saints and crucifixions. Religion played a big role in my life.

You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience.

I gave up love and happiness a long time ago.

When I was 11, I had an episode in my life. I saw my cousin shoot his wife. It wasn't traumatic... but the shock value. I went back into the apartment to collect some things with my dad, because my cousin was in jail. The bed was all bloody. It was there where she had landed after the bullet. She got a .38 to the face.

Big deal, death comes with the territory. See you in Disneyland.

You maggots make me sick, I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells within us all.

Even psychopaths have emotions. Then again, maybe not.

I don't need to hear all of society's rationalizations. I've heard them all before and the fact remains that what is, is. You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it.

The media had portrayed me as a cold-hearted, ruthless monster, but I'm really not that way. I'm very down to earth. So, at that time I let people think whatever they wanted to. Tou see or hear about the crimes and then imagine what kind of individual was behind them.

I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so called civilized-society

I was receiving so much negative publicity. I wasn't going to give people the satisfaction of seeing me down.

I'm pretty set in my ways. I doubt anything short of a miracle would change me. I do have an open mind, and I listen to them.

In the end, we all die, and nothing really matters.

And no one knows that better than those who kill for policy, clandestinely or openly, as do the governments of the world, which kill in the name of god and country or for whatever reason they deem appropriate.

I think the girls are attracted to me because they can relate to me. The girls are nice when you're in my situation, but since I'm in here [in jail] I spend more time writing to them about the relationship, rather than living it, but there are good friendships formed never-the-less.

Everybody has got good and evil in them. I'd like to be 100% evil, but I can't. I'm too easy-going sometimes. Then again, while anger and hate are two things some people can cope with, I cannot. My anger and hate grow to a level that I cannot live comfortably with it. it causes me headaches and stuff. When I get angry, it's an extreme form. It is the extreme. There is no inbetween. But there is with good and evil, and I am there.

Everybody has got good and evil in them. I'd like to be 100% evil, but I can't.

All the killings are going to be blamed on me.

Blood is the substance that allows any living thing to exist, but blood is blood. I have heard of people drinking each other's blood. They cut each other, and they drink it and it's supposed to be a euphoric feeling. But, blood has no special interest for me.

Everyone plays a role and no one says what's truly on their mind.

Evil has always existed, the perfect world most people seek shall never come to pass and it's gonna get worse.

Going to the trial was very tiring for me, but I did enjoy it better than sitting in a jail cell. That could be very monotonous.

I believe that most humans have within them the capacity to commit murder.

I love to kill people. I love to watch them die. I would shoot them in the head and they would wiggle and squirm all over the place, and then just stop. Or I would cut them with a knife and watch their faces turn real white. I love all that blood.

I read suspense and horror, somethings that intrigue me. I have always been fascinated by death.

I was not aware of my actions. Everyone must find out who they are and be aware of their actions before they wind up in a vicious predicament.

In today's society, people use those qualities - I call them qualities - for all things. It is for self-gratification. It is for sex. It is for excitment. This kind of fervor servers it's own purpose. It doesn't obey rules. It runs amok. You see it on the news everyday, but society cannot hang it's moral and ethical values on me to survive. i do what I must in all ways, and I'm proud of it. The necessity to be myself passes all moral barriers.

I've been accused of almost every crime you can imagine.

I've killed 20 people, man. I love all that blood.

Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer's mind, how he operates.

Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer's mind, how he operates. They don't read, which is rightfully so. If they have a life to live, they're not going to spend a lot of time reading up on killers if that's not in their interest. Certainly, Serial Killers and killers have the advantage in that they use the element of surprise"¦uh"¦darkness, and such things as this"¦

One time I told this lady to give me all her money, she said no. So I cut her and pulled her eyes out. I would do someone in and then take a camera and set the timer so I could sit them up next to me and take our picture together.

Satanists need to have more faith than Christians, because Christ was seen and felt. Lucifer has never felt the need to be seen, but in everyone's soul he can be felt.

Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times.

The sex drive is the most important and powerful behaviour in mankind.

There's blood behind the Night Stalker.

Violent delights tend to have violent ends.

We are all evil in some form or another, are we not?

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.

What Satan means to me-Satan is a stabilizing force in my life. It gives me a reason to be; it gives me-an excuse to rationalize. There is a part of me that believes he really does exist. I have my doubts, but we all do, about many things.

When the state comes to execute a man, they laugh. So do I.

While anger and hate are two things some people can cope with, I cannot. My anger and hate grow to a level that I cannot live comfortably with it.

Who's to say what's evil? A man's beliefs are his own business. Neither the Church nor anybody else has the right to tell you how to act; that's what real freedom is about: to be able to be who you really are, not what you are expected or supposed to be.

You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells in all of us...I don't believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so-called civilized society....You maggots make me sick! Hypocrites one and all...I don't need to hear all of society's rationalizations. I've heard them all before...legions of the night, night breed, repeat not the errors of the night prowler and show no mercy.