Patrick Bateman, Jr. (Chapter 11) - Oppenheimer: The Musical

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.” ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.” ― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 …

“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…