Chris Peyton

“Even if the Groundhog promises a quick spring, Chicagoans know the rodent lies.”
― Karen Conti, Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row

“One morning, there were two gallons of what appeared to be ketchup on my front stairs. It was either a symbol signifying the spillage of blood by some antagonist or a Heinz delivery gone awry.”
― Karen Conti, Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row

“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Letters

“all living things have a genetically-embedded force driving them to deny death no matter their knowledge of this fait accompli.”
― Karen Conti, Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America's Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row