“There was no emotion in my blood. There was no anger. There was nothing. It was dead silence in my brain.”

—  Mark Chapman

Mark Chapman explaining how he felt when he committed murder http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2310873.stm

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