Bret Easton Ellis

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

— Bret Easton Ellis

People are afraid to merge.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“I'm resourceful," Price is saying. "I'm creative, I'm young, unscrupulous, highly motivate, highly skilled. In essence what I'm saying is that society…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Descansado," he tells me. "What does that mean?" "Descansado," Rip says. "It means 'take it easy,'" he whispers, clutching the child next…

— Bret Easton Ellis

A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“About a week ago I was sitting in L.A.'s chicest nightclub with a few friends and the DJ was playing Yaz and…

— Bret Easton Ellis

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

— Bret Easton Ellis

“There's a moment of sheer terror when I discover Paul's apartment overlooks the park”

— Bret Easton Ellis

At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

— Bret Easton Ellis

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“No,” I start, hesitantly. “Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“J&B I am thinking. Glass of J&B in my right hand I am thinking. Hand I am thinking. Charivari. Shirt from Charivari.…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“and like in a movie I appear in front of the D'Agostino's, sale's clerks beckoning for me to enter, and I'm using…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“I realize I have nothing to say to Trent Burroughs as I tell him, “I’ve been in New York the last four…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce and you rarely tilt in favor…

— Bret Easton Ellis