• We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was  looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what  people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one  day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman,  and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the  eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.

    We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.