“Gerald Foos’s explanation in his journal – he was ‘only an observer and not a reporter,’ and he ‘really didn’t exist as far as the male and female subjects were concerned’ – were explanations that didn’t surprise me because of his often-expressed notion that he was a fractured individual, a hybridized combination of the Voyeur and Gerald Foos.”

“Gerald Foos’s explanation in his journal – he was ‘only an observer and not a reporter,’ and he ‘really didn’t exist as far as the male and female subjects were concerned’ – were explanations that didn’t surprise me because of his often-expressed notion that he was a fractured individual, a hybridized combination of the Voyeur and Gerald Foos.”

— Gay Talese