Talk:Jeffrey Dahmer

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After the fear and terror of what I'd done [the murder of Steven Tuomi] had left, which took about a month or two, I started it all over again. From then on it was a craving, a hunger, I don't know how to describe it, a compulsion, and I just kept doing it, doing it and doing it, whenever the opportunity presented itself.

I couldn’t find any meaning in my life when I was out there. I'm sure as hell not going to find it in here [in prison]. This is the grand finale of a life poorly spent and the end result is just overwhelmingly depressing… it's just a sick, pathetic, wretched, miserable life story, that's all it is. How it can help anyone, I've no idea.

I decided I wasn't ever going to get married because I never wanted to go through anything like that.
- On his parents' marriage.

I didn't want to keep killing people and have nothing left except the skull… This is going to sound bad, but… should I say it?… I took the drill while he was asleep…

I don't know why it started. I don't have any definite answers on that myself. If I knew the true, real reasons why all this started, before it ever did , I wouldn't probably have done any of it.

I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium, that's what I should have done.

It's hard for me to believe that a human being could have done what I've done, but I know that I did it.

It's just a nightmare, let's put it that way. It's been a nightmare for a long time, even before I was caught… for years now, obviously my mind has been filled with gruesome, horrible thoughts and ideas… a nightmare.

It was nice, with African cichlids and tiger barbs in it and live plants, it was a beautifully kept fish tank, very clean. I used to like to just sit there and watch them swim around, basically. I used to enjoy the planning and the set-up, the filtration, read about how to keep the nitrate and ammonia down to safe levels and just the whole spectrum of fish-keeping interested me. I once saw some puffer fish in the store. It's a round fish, and the only ones I ever saw with both eyes in front, like a person's eyes, and they would come right up to the front of the glass and their eyes would be crystal blue, like a person's, real cute. It's a fun hobby. I really enjoyed that fish tank. It's something I really miss.

Like arrows, shooting through my mind from out of the blue.
- About his fantasies

One thing I know for sure. It was a definite compulsion because I couldn't quit. I tried, but after the Ambassador, I couldn't quit. It would be nice if someone could give the answer on a silver platter as to why I did all this and what caused it, because I can't come up with an answer.

Yes, I do have remorse, but I'm not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I've always wondered myself why I don't feel more remorse.