30 Quotes by Mark David Chapman

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.

Mr. Lennon would want me free, and I'd like to clear that up.

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.

I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.

I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.

I wanted to be videotaped.

I just shot John Lennon.

I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.