About

I live in the American Gardens building...

on West 81st Street on the 11th floor.

My name is Patrick Bateman.

I'm 27 years old.

I believe in taking care of myself,

in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine.

ln the morning, if my face is a little pufffy,

I'll put on an icepack while doing my stomach crunches.

I can do a thousand now.

After I remove the icepack, I use a deeppore cleanser lotion.

In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser.

Then a honey-almond bodyscrub.

And on the face, an exfoliating gelscrub.

Then I apply an herb mint facialmasque,

which lleave on forten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine.

I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol,

because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older.

Then moisturizer,

then an anti-aging eye balm,

followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.

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 may be you can even sense our life styles are probably comparable,

I simply am not there.