Quotes from book

American Psycho

“I have to return some videotapes”

“Price. You're priceless.”

“This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.”

“Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.”

“I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.”

“I think a lot of snowflakes are alike… and I think a lot of people are alike too.”

“Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.”

“I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?”

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”

“This is not an exit.”

“I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.”

“But… what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly.
"The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.”

“And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing… this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea…”

“but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly… glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.”

“I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.”

“We buy balloons, we let them go.”

“I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body”

“There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.”