Bret Easton Ellis

“...a flood of reality. I get an odd feeling that this is a crucial moment in my life and I'm startled by…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married." Because trying to fuck you is like trying to french-kiss…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Listen," I say, pushing my chair in. "I just want everyone to know that I'm pro-family and anti-drug. Excuse me.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“I concentrate on the Absolut and cranberry I'm holding and it looks like a glassful of thin, watery blood with ice and…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“The Patty Winters Shows were all repeats. Life remained a blank canvas, a cliche, a soap opera. I felt lethal, on the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever

— Bret Easton Ellis

“To me she looks like a big black ant - a big black ant in an original Christian Lacroix - eating a…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

— Bret Easton Ellis

“where are we going?' I asked. 'I don't know,' he said. 'just driving.' 'But this road doesn't go anywhere,' I told him.…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I didn't do…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“It's a powerful statement and one that Whitney sings with a grandeur that approaches the sublime. Its universal message crosses all boundaries…

— Bret Easton Ellis

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't.…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I think we've all lost some kind of feeling.

— Bret Easton Ellis

“and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“The heroin flowing through me, I thought about the last time I saw my father alive. He was drunk and overweight in…

— Bret Easton Ellis

After a while you learn that everything stops.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“The things I could do to you with a coat hanger.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

“There is no time for the innocent.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“This was what i could understand, this was how I lived my life, what I constructed my movement around, how I dealt…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface,…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Café Flore is packed, shimmering, every table filled. Bentley notices this with a grim satisfaction but Bentley feels lost. He’s still haunted…

— Bret Easton Ellis