"American Psycho" Quotes
A wealthy and successful New York City investment banker hides his psychopathic ego from his friends and co-workers as he escalates his violence and brutality.
fiction | 399 pages | Published in 1991
Quotes
There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory.
I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.
I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed.
I'm into, oh, murders and executions, mostly.
I want to fit in.
What does that mean? What does that mean? I have to return some videotapes.
There is no real me, only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.
