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

“what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.”

“Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?”

“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.”

“I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.”

“...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.”

“I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.”