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American Psycho

Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harro

(14 total)

“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human b…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com

Tagged: Banned Books

“Abandon all hope ye who enter here is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com

Tagged: first lines of books

“My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledg…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Hatred

“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human b…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com

Tagged: humanity, Blood, creepy

“My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape.”

— Bret Eason Ellis, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Suffering

“How could she ever understand that there isn't any way I could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , amazon.com

“… There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but 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…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , amazon.com

Tagged: Identity, Nihilism

“There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and, possibly, total disgust. 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, th…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , amazon.com

Tagged: Identity

“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...”

— Patrick Bateman , Patrick Bateman , Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com

Tagged: Evil, Surface, God is dead

“But even after admitting this — and I have, countless times, in just about every act I've committed — and coming face-to-face with these truths, there is no catharsis. I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to t…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , amazon.com

Tagged: Self Discovery

“I walk away, hailing a taxi, and heading toward Hubert's in it I hallucinate the buildings into mountains, into volcanoes, the streets become jungles, the sky freezes into a backdrop, and before stepping out of the cab I have to cross my eyes in order to clear my vision. Lunch at Hubert's becomes a…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , amazon.com

Tagged: Hallucinate

“A young girl, a freshman, I met in a bar in Cambridge my junior year at Harvard told me early one fall that 'Life is full of endless possibilities.' I tried valiantly not to choke on the beer nuts I was chewing while she gushed this kidney stone of wisdom, and I calmly washed them down with the rest…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , amazon.com

Tagged: Hope

“Later, predictably, she's tied to the floor, naked, on her back, both feet, both hands, tied to makeshift posts that are connected to boards which are weighted down with metal. The hands are shot full of nails and her legs are spread as wide as possible. A pillow props her ass up and cheese, Brie, h…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , amazon.com

“I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in. It was a vision so clear and real and vital to…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com

Tagged: Desert, Nihilism, Vanishing Point