what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
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Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“How is your father?” she asks disinterestedly. “A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot device.” — Bret Easton Ellis Metafiction Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I hear it, can actually feel, can even make out the letters of the message hovering above Bono’s head in orange wavy… — Bret Easton Ellis Devil Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when you’re standing in a crowd I feel those sultry dark eyes of yours stop on me. Are you too afraid… — Bret Easton Ellis Dark eyes Copy Share Image
The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at… — Bret Easton Ellis Bird Copy Share Image
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“I can't disagree." I laugh weakly, walking him to the door. As he leaves I'm wondering and not wondering what happens in… — Bret Easton Ellis Big idea Copy Share Image
“She said that you--" "I don't care what she said." I stand up. "Everyone lies." "Hey," he says softly. "It's just a… — Bret Easton Ellis Angry Copy Share Image
I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around… — Bret Easton Ellis Adults Copy Share Image
“A young girl, a freshman, I met in a bar in Cambridge my junior year at Harvard told me early one fall… — Bret Easton Ellis Endless possibilities Copy Share Image
“Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire -- meaningless. Intellect is not a cure.… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“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 Beverly hills Copy Share Image
“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 Focal point Copy Share Image
“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 Girl Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and possibly, total disgust. I had all the characteristics of a… — Bret Easton Ellis Compassion Copy Share Image
...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something… — Bret Easton Ellis Cold Copy Share Image
“And later when we got into the car, he took a turn down a street that I was pretty sure was a… — Bret Easton Ellis Dead end Copy Share Image
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“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 Blank canvas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Baby, Andy once said that beauty is a sign of intelligence.' She turns slowly to look at me. 'Who, Victor? Who? Andy… — Bret Easton Ellis Beauty Copy Share Image
... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to… — Bret Easton Ellis Cds Copy Share Image
“...I feel anchored, calm, even with Evelyn sitting across from me prattling on about a very large Faberge egg she thought she… — Bret Easton Ellis Absurdity Copy Share Image
“The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me” played over the montage, not that the lyrics had anything to do with the images… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“It's basically a joke." "I think it's cool," Julian says. "It's all about control, right?" He considers something. "It's not a joke.… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a… — Bret Easton Ellis Analysis Copy Share Image
“Someone has already taken out a Minolta cellular phone and called for a car, and then, when I'm not really listening, watching… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“I had all the characteristics of a human being-- flesh, blood, skin, hair-- but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so… — Bret Easton Ellis Compassion Copy Share Image
“I’m drinking a glass of water in the empty hotel bar at the Principe di Savoia and staring at the mural behind… — Bret Easton Ellis Dark clouds Copy Share Image
“While taking a piss in the men's room, I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,… — Bret Easton Ellis Abstract Copy Share Image
I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,… — Bret Easton Ellis Better place Copy Share Image