Patrick Bateman

"Everything about me is carefully calculated."

"I am both more and less than human."

"Connection requires vulnerability I cannot provide."

"I am perpetually unsatisfied yet always striving."

"The only truth is what we can acquire."

"I am complete on the surface, empty within."

"Power justifies everything."

"I am what happens when ambition exceeds conscience."

"I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, simple emotion."

"Dorsia is very difficult to get into these days."

"I'm into murders and executions."

"It's not that I'm indifferent to suffering. I just don't have the emotional capacity to properly respond to it."

"I have business cards that are eggshell with Romalian type."

"Die, hippy scum. Die, die, die."

"I want to fit in."

"My life has become a series of meaningless social rituals."

"Ambition is the wellspring of human achievement."

"I have no friends."

"Money doesn't buy happiness, but it buys everything else that matters."

"I'm not sure I exist."

"The more successful I seem, the more I question my existence."

"I'm into murders and executions—have been for some time."

"Huey Lewis and the News represent the synthesizer pop of the 1980s."

"I wish I could give you something more—but I can't."

"I'm trying to be real, but I just can't connect."

"In the morning, I shower and apply an herb-mint facial mask."

"I think my mask of sanity is about to slip."

"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman—some kind of abstraction."

"I have to return some videotapes."

"This business of mine only takes up my time."