Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

"Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?"

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

"Akthent on thee latht thyllable."

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

"At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he’d been a mime, odds are he’d already be dead."

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

"This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with."

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho