" Because he’s self-aware. He’s committing patricides and matricides, but they’re very conscious. He’s not displacing. He knows he’s implicating his parents. He knows his killings are symbolic—even illustrations of Freudian thought. That’s why he thinks he’s so much smarter than other killers. His killings don’t divulge who he is. They affirm who he is. They’re part of his self-definition. "

― Gregg Andrew Hurwitz , The Tower