Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

I had this dream, see, where I saw the whole world melt. I was standing on La Cienega and from there...

You have neither the clout nor the experience to make a threat like that, Victor.

Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.

If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

I want to stay," and then, more weakly, "Need some more sun."A fly from a batch of seaweed lands on ...

Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason....

What you need is a chick from Camden,' Van Patten says, after recovering from McDermott's statement....

If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I ...

The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me” played over the montage, not that the lyrics had anything t...

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any ...

This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people w...

At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location af...

I have to return some videotapes

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Akthent on thee latht thyllable.

‏@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happen...

Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason....

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you...

A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were...

But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian ...

How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met...

He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- exc...

She said that you--" "I don't care what she said." I stand up. "Everyone lies." "Hey," he says softl...

... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, ...

In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author...

It's basically a joke." "I think it's cool," Julian says. "It's all about control, right?" He consid...

Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done.

Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it’s more forceful than th...

The better you look, the more you see.

Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act.

And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around....

I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me...

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

On the plane leaving Tokyo I’m sitting alone in back twisting the knobs on Etch-A-Sketch and Roger i...

You learn to move on without the people you love.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visi...

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

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I sudd...

I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had be...

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood...

The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard...

But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him.Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.''What?''...

What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest.'What do you do?''What do you do?' she asks, her voi...

People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come ba...

Disappear Here.The syringe fills with blood.You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters.Wonde...

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

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t ...

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree...

The audience-- the book's actual cast-- quickly realized what had happened. The reason the movie dro...

Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize y...

Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book whi...