Henry Lee Lucas famous quotes

Killing became the same thing as having sex.
-- Henry Lee Lucas

#Sex #Killing

I hated all my life. I hated everybody. When I first grew up and can remember, I was dressed as a girl by mother. And I stayed that way for two or three years. And after that I was treated like what I call the dog of the family. I was beaten. I was made to do things that no human bein would want to do.
-- Henry Lee Lucas

#Girl #Mother #Dog

My victims never knew what was going to happen to them. I've had shooting, knifings, strangulations, beatings, and I've participated in actual crucifixions of humans. All across the country, there's people just like me, who set out to destroy life.
-- Henry Lee Lucas

#Country #People #Shooting

Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime.
-- Henry Lee Lucas

#Done #Forget #Crime

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.

Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.

Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

I need to die for the killing of those people.

Every time we look, they're killing Jews.