“Like so many other serial killers, Ted needed to be considered a normal person. He did not want to be thought a pervert. So full of defeat that one wondered how he kept his mind marginally intact, he certainly did not want to be seen as a monster. And, like any number of sociopaths I have listened to, Ted so often spoke in cliches, even as he derided them. "Water under the bridge... stick its head in the sand." The cliche seems to give a sociopath something to cling to - a verbal anchoring place that allows him to communicate, to speak the language of normal people.”