SIMON

“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
― James Ellroy

“In its timeless capacity to embody the human condition, the vampire is a poignant metaphor describing the psychosocial experience of the pariah - the outsider. The vampire is the Other that used to be human. The diseased, the mentally challenged, the homeless and hungry, ......are all vampires in a way; the other who used to be human, the invisible who casts no reflection among us.”
― Katherine Ramsland, The Science of Vampires

“For Dennis Rader, life was good—both of them.”
― Katherine Ramsland, Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer

“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.”
― James Ellroy