American Psycho Quotes
"When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right."
"I used Listerine afterwards and my mouth feels like it's on fire but I manage a smile to no one as I step out of the elevator."
"If they have a good personality and they are not great-looking, who fucking cares?"
"But just holding it, catching some of its aroma along with the knowledge that drugs are incoming, comforts me."
"I have a Walkman in my Bottega Veneta briefcase I could easily put on."
"You should have it with Diet Pepsi. It's much better."
"If you don't have the V's, you might as well be listening to a goddamn Walkman."
"What are you going to do? Wait three years until you're thirty?"
"You've got a negative attitude. That's what's stopping you. You've got to get your act together."
"There's a quarter. Go buy some gum, you crazy fucking nigger."
"I'm sorry I insulted the pizzas at Pastels. Happy?"
"I'm not going to make it, Jean," I say, then choke out, "to the office this afternoon."
"You'll look like you consciously worked for this look."
"What in the fuck is going on?" I ask, seething, my platinum AmEx already slapped on the greasy table.
"I bet Bono has a small dick," Owen says, staring out the tinted window. "Irish, you know."
"I want to take you away from all this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and… stuff."
"Stop sounding so fucking… sad. Jesus," I shout.
"I've seen you looking at me," he says, panting. "I've noticed your" – he gulps – "hot body."
"You don't know how long I've wanted it…" He's sighing, rubbing my shoulders, trembling.
"It's midafternoon and I find myself standing at a phone booth on a corner somewhere downtown, I don't know where, but I'm sweaty and a pounding migraine thumps dully in my head."
"I can't stand the Rainbow Room," I say, adamant.
"We walk in and I lay out sixty dollars; not a single drink ticket."
"The club is predictably dark except for the flashing strobe lights."
"I tell Evelyn to go to the bar and get us two glasses of champagne."
"In the meantime I score a gram from someone who looks like Mike Donaldson."
"It's quiet except for the sniffling and muted laughter coming from the stall."
"The girl keeps sighing and tossing her hair over her shoulder in these strangely enticing jerky head movements."
"Thank god," I whisper, fingering the gram in my pocket."
"I'm wearing a two-button wool suit with pleated trousers by Luciano Soprani."
"I'm about to tell Owen that Cecelia, Marcus Halberstam's girlfriend, has two vaginas."
"Every time I attempt to steer the conversation back to the mysterious Fisher account, he infuriatingly changes the topic."
"I scream at him only once: 'Fucking stupid bastard. Fucking bastard.'"
"I'm gradually uncovering some startling information here."
"I had all the characteristics of a human being – flesh, blood, skin, hair – but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated."
"The earth just opens up and swallows people."
"Something horrible was happening and yet I couldn't figure out why – I couldn't put my finger on it."
"Life remained a blank canvas, a cliché, a soap opera."
"My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage."
"This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation."
"There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and, possibly, total disgust."
"You have distorted this obsession of yours way out of proportion. Way, way out of proportion."
"Just because you won't admit... certain feelings you have doesn't mean you don't have them."
"You have reached… an inaccurate conclusion. You are… obviously unsound."
"What is this continuing inability you have to evaluate this situation rationally?"
"I can feel him staring helplessly into me, that he's near total emotional collapse."
"Listen to me, Luis. If you do not stop crying, you fucking pathetic faggot, I am going to slit your fucking throat."
"If I can't have you, I don't want to live. I want to die."
"I'm not mourning, and to prove it to myself, I eat the girl's brain, gobbling it down."
"You should... wear erotic underwear? Oh Jesus, Evelyn. I don't know. Nothing. You can't do anything."
"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me."
"I had to remind myself that this thing, this girl, this meat, is nothing, is shit."
"Surface, surface, surface, was all that anyone found meaning in... this was civilization as I saw it."
"My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone."
"I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling."
"People can get accustomed to anything."