Chessman Quotes

#1. The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

Caryl Chessman

#2. Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

Caryl Chessman

#3. My soul is not for sale.

Caryl Chessman

#4. Cool hands grasped my shoulders and tried to pull me away from Camdus, but I wouldn't have it. I was going nowhere. I clutched his shoulders, breathing him in. I was determined to stay with my husband no matter what. They would have to pry me away. And then someone did.

Courtney Cole

#5. How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.

Caryl Chessman

#6. His eyes lit up and glowed red against the dark bulk of it. A moment they remained so ... then they soared up, phosphorescently opalescent, with a predominance of red, like two sinful dead planets escaping from Hell.

Jessie Douglas Kerruish

#7. If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

Caryl Chessman

#8. I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world has only been through Facebook.

Isaiah Washington

#9. A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

Caryl Chessman

#10. I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Caryl Chessman

#11. 'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.

Christine Ebersole

#12. As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Henry Vaughan

#13. It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

Caryl Chessman

#14. It may ... be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

Mary Shelley