“… 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
“Life is a detour for an organism that came from nothing and will soon return to nothing.”— Simon Critchley, 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