Bret Easton Ellis’ novel ‘American Psycho’ was published in 1991.
The story revolves on Patrick Bateman, a rich and arrogant New York City businessman who becomes progressively obsessed with violence and murder.
The novel has been generally praised as a contemporary literary classic.
Here are some of the best quotes from American Psycho for you.
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American Psycho Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis
“Listen,” I say, pushing my chair in. “I just want everyone to know that I’m pro-family and anti-drug. Excuse me.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“He’s the boy next door, aren’t you honey?” “No I’m not,” I whisper to myself. “I’m a f*cking evil psychopath.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“Price. You’re priceless.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“I feel I’m moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“You should never mistake affection for … passion,” I warn her. “It can be … not good. It can … get you into, well, trouble.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“There is no time for the innocent.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“I’m also staring at the fortune cookie. Its got a lot of blood on it and I shrug and say, as jovially as I can, “Oh, you know me.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“Most importantly we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“I think about other things while she describes her recent past: air, water, sky, time, a moment, a point somewhere when I wanted to show her everything beautiful in the world.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
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Best American Psycho Quotes
“This is not an exit.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. 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 knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“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.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
Quotes from American Psycho
“The things I could do to you with a coat hanger.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“Bigfoot was interviewed on The Patty Winters Show this morning and to my shock I found him surprisingly articulate and charming.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“My nightly blood lust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“I want to take you away from this,” I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. “From sushi and elves and… STUFF.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“I’m into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“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.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“…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 not there.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
Famous American Psycho Quotes
“I have no patience for revelations, for new beginnings, for events that take place beyond the realm of my immediate vision.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“You should never mistake affection for … passion.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“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 (American Psycho).
“We buy balloons, we let them go.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“I’ve forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.” ~ 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).
“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…” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally?” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“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 being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
Popular American Psycho Quotes
“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.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“My pain is constant and sharp…this confession has meant nothing.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there’s nothing there, not even a beat.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“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.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“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.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“You don’t know what torture is. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You really don’t know what you’re talking about.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
Great American Psycho Quotes
“I’m resourceful,” Price is saying. “I’m creative, I’m young, unscrupulous, highly motivate, highly skilled. In essence what I’m saying is that society cannot afford to lose me. I’m an asset” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“I like to dissect girls. Did you know I’m utterly insane?” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“There’s a moment of sheer terror when I discover Paul’s apartment overlooks the park.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“Disintegration—I’m taking it in stride.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“I have to return some videotapes.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
“People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho).
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