Excerpt from 'Less Than Zero'

[About Elivis Costello]... "'Like him? Did you see him at the Amphitheater? Yeah? He's in Europe now, I guess. At least that's what I heard on MTV. Like the last album?'

'What about me?'

'What about you?'

'What about me?'

'You'll be fine.'

'I don't know,' I say. 'I don't think so.'

'Let's talk about something else.'

'What about me?' I scream, choking.

'Come on, Clay,' the psychiatrist says. 'Don't be so ... mundane.'

Bret Easton Ellis

Less Than Zero p. 112