"Even when she was dead, she was still bitching at me. I couldn't get her to shut up!"
-Ed Kemper
"I certainly wanted for my mother a nice, quiet easy death like everyone else wants."
-Ed Kemper
"I just wanted to see how it felt to shoot Grandma."
-Ed Kemper
"I remember there was actually a sexual thrill . . . you hear that little pop and pull their heads of and hold their heads up by the hair. Whipping their heads off, their body sitting there. That'd get me off."
-Ed Kemper
"If I killed them, you know, they couldn't reject me as a man. It was more or less making a doll out of a human being . . . and carrying out my fantasies with a doll, a living human doll."
-Ed Kemper
"It was an urge. . . . . A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where I was taking risks to go out and kill people--risks that normally, according to my little rules of operation, I wouldn't take because they could lead to arrest. "
-Ed Kemper
"One side of me says, I'd like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder what her head would look like on a stick?"
-Ed Kemper
"The first good-looking girl I see tonight is going to die."
-Ed Kemper
"With a girl, there's a lot left in the girl's body without a head. Of course, the personality is gone."
-Ed Kemper
