Criminal Behavior Analysis Quotes

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.

I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a person might use to pass on a favorite lasagna recipe. And I was responding with the same enthusiasm a new cook might show. I was simultaneously horrified and impressed with myself.

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

In no way do I feel superior to anyone except paedophiles, rapists, murderers, etc.