Son Quotes

“There are very definite aspects to our culture pattern which give psychopaths encouragement. In America we put great value on the acquisition of material gain, prestige, power, personal ascendance, and the competitive massing of goods. —William Krasner, The Psychopath in Our Society, Neurotica II, 1948 Thursday”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims

“Growth stationery from “X. Drew Butler,” advising the mayor of Airway Heights to prepare for major expansion”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims

“deep regret, “none of this would ever have happened.”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims

“She wondered why he hadn’t come after her. How many men would let their wives walk out of a restaurant late at night and not give a damn where they went ? She wished she could stop thinking”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims

“He made his job descriptions sound like a steady upward spiral toward success. Of his days as movie usher and popcornmaker he said, “I was in Los Angeles working in the theater business for about a year. . . . I was working for the National General Corporation, which was a multinational conglomerate. They both own theaters and motion production companies. My long-range interest at the time was hopefully to get into screenwriting, so I worked for the theater in the corporation with the hope of getting into screenwriting. The theater I worked at was within about a mile’s drive of Universal Studios, where National General did a lot of their filming. So I was close to where I was trying to break into it.”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims

“husbands.”
― Jack Olsen, Son: A Psychopath and his Victims