“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Why do I sense hostility on your part, Patrick?” she asks softly, then sips her wine. “Maybe because I’m hostile,” I spit… — Bret Easton Ellis Hostility Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here. — Bret Easton Ellis Life Copy Share Image
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 Baby Copy Share Image
It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a… — Bret Easton Ellis Always fighting Copy Share Image
What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality? — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“...when I look over at Luis in one brief flashing moment his head looks like a talking vagina and it scares the… — Bret Easton Ellis Vagina Copy Share Image
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 Happiness Copy Share Image
You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in… — Bret Easton Ellis Book Copy Share Image
“But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him. Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.' 'What?' 'No I don't.'… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“On my way over to Park Avenue to find a cab I pass an ugly, homeless bum-- a member of the genetic… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Why not?” she asks petulantly. “Give me one good reason we shouldn’t.” “Because trying to fuck you is like trying to French-kiss… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Eventually everyone has to hit the dark side of life - Someone doesn't like you, someone doesn't like your work, someone doesn't… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the… — Bret Easton Ellis Book Copy Share Image
“On the TV screen in Harry's is The Patty Winters Show, which is now on in the afternoon and is up against… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author portrayed in… — Bret Easton Ellis Actor Copy Share Image
“At the casting sessions it was all boys and though I wasn’t exactly bored I didn’t need to be there, and songs… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, falling in love, war, the discoveries people… — Bret Easton Ellis Compassion Copy Share Image
“Got you. You're mine now. For the rest of the day, week, month, year, life. Have you guessed who I am? Sometimes… — Bret Easton Ellis Dark eyes Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until the show was almost over that I figured out what it was: the crack above my David Onica that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“there was a song i heard when i was in los angeles by a local group. the song was called "los angeles"… — Bret Easton Ellis Living in the city Copy Share Image
“I want to stay," and then, more weakly, "Need some more sun." A fly from a batch of seaweed lands on a… — Bret Easton Ellis Blind person Copy Share Image
“You should never mistake affection for … passion,” I warn her. “It can be … not good. It can … get you into, well, trouble.” — Bret Easton Ellis Affection Copy Share Image
No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“If all of your friends are morons is it a felony, a misdemeanor or an act of God if you blow their… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about.… — Bret Easton Ellis Care Copy Share Image
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 Fiction Copy Share Image
“Bigfoot was interviewed on The Patty Winters Show this morning and to my shock I found him surprisingly articulate and charming.” — Bret Easton Ellis Bigfoot Copy Share Image
And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something… — Bret Easton Ellis Book Copy Share Image
but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I… — Bret Easton Ellis Hate Copy Share Image
“This isn't a script," Julian says. "It's not going to add up. Not everything's going to come together in the third act.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
