4 Quotes About American Psycho

Most people are intrigued by the idea of “American Psycho”, but few know much about it. Patrick Bateman is the main character in the book "American Psycho", which was written by Bret Easton Ellis. He is a seemingly successful Wall Street investment banker who works at the elite Bay Windows firm. He has an attractive wife and a young daughter, but he also has very little empathy for anyone beyond his immediate family Read more

Bateman is introduced as a highly intelligent student, who graduated summa cum laude from Fordham University, but appears to have no career aspirations beyond working as an investment banker. He is described as being physically attractive, but being so emotionally detached that he does not notice women's physical appearance or respond to sexual advances. Bateman's relationship with his father was very poor, although he still saw him on holidays.

His mother died when he was five. It is implied that Bateman had a sexual encounter with his high school French teacher when he was in high school.

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Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human i David Foster Wallace
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There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize that Paul's apartment overlooks the park... and is obviously more expensive than mine. Patrick Bateman
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Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire -- meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. Fear, recrimination, innocence, sympathizing, guilt, waste, failure, grief, were things, emotions, that no one really felt any more. Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in..this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged.. Bret Easton Ellis