John Skipp > Quotes

“There is no escape from the horror of horror.”
― John Skipp, Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane

“And that’s the great thing about Ye Olde Peruvian Marching Powder, he went on. It’s like psychic Saran Wrap: it locks in freshness so well that you can’t even feel your own soul ticking, much less anyone else’s.”
― John Skipp, The Scream

“player hummed for a second, then sweet sad acoustic guitar filled the air, arpeggiated cascades that transformed the cramped space of the room. The voice that followed was smoky and haunting, filled with loss:”
― John Skipp, Animals

“And, like the rest of America, Paradise slept: well past the wee hours, to the break of Sunday dawn. Across the city, across the county, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand lives lay down together in isolated slumber, unconsciously intertwined.
And not a one of them ever even saw it coming.”
― John Skipp, The Bridge