
It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does. —
Bret Easton Ellis

No one ever likes the right person. —
Bret Easton Ellis

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

I'm having a difficult time containing my disordered self. —
Bret Easton Ellis

People are afraid to merge. —
Bret Easton Ellis

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. —
Bret Easton Ellis

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it. —
Bret Easton Ellis

Bigfoot was interviewed on The Patty Winters Show this morning and to my shock I found him surprisingly articulate and charming. —
Bret Easton Ellis

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

There's no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I've started drinking my own urine. —
Bret Easton Ellis

You can disappear here without knowing it. —
Bret Easton Ellis

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

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends. —
Bret Easton Ellis

Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it's more forceful than that. —
Bret Easton Ellis

When I look over at Luis in one brief flashing moment his head looks like a talking vagina and it scares the bejesus out of me ... —
Bret Easton Ellis

When Blair bites her lower lip she's eighteen again. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at The Four Seasons in twenty minutes anyway," I lie, standing up. "I have to go too. —
Bret Easton Ellis

My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I guess the consolation is that she's not going to be beautiful forever," he says. "But I'd like to be with her before that happens. —
Bret Easton Ellis

You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else —
Kanye West

There is no time for the innocent. —
Bret Easton Ellis

What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad? —
Bret Easton Ellis

On The Patty Winters Show this morning a Cheerio sat in a very small chair and was interviewed for close to an hour. —
Bret Easton Ellis

Around here, 'tomorrow night' means anywhere from five days to a month. Jesus, —
Bret Easton Ellis

You learn to move on without the people you love. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him. —
Bret Easton Ellis

There is music playing somewhere but I can't hear it. —
Bret Easton Ellis

The better you look, the more you see. —
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

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other. —
Bret Easton Ellis

Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect. —
Bret Easton Ellis

Scientists peered into data and concluded that we should all be worried.
-Lunar planet —
Bret Easton Ellis

We buy balloons, we let them go. —
Bret Easton Ellis

All of my books come from pain. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I don't know why I write what I write. —
Bret Easton Ellis

There's a moment of sheer terror when I discover Paul's apartment overlooks the park —
Bret Easton Ellis

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general. —
Bret Easton Ellis

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad. —
Bret Easton Ellis

There was something beneath the surface of things. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane? —
Bret Easton Ellis

Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally? —
Bret Easton Ellis

I'm thinking about the beautiful boy on the treadmill wearing the I STILL HAVE A DREAM T-shirt and realize that it might not have been ironic. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes —
Bret Easton Ellis

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time. —
Bret Easton Ellis

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. It's less painful if I don't care. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I have no patience for revelations, for new beginnings, for events that take place beyond the realm of my immediate vision. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy. —
Bret Easton Ellis

If you can't make a girl come why even bother? That always seemed to me to be like writing questions in a letter. —
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

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically. —
Bret Easton Ellis

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

This was sending me out so much further than I had ever expected: a place beyond strength. —
Bret Easton Ellis

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy. —
Bret Easton Ellis

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before. —
Tao Lin

When you love a book it loves you back. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where. —
Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videos, —
Bret Easton Ellis

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 primal way. —
Bret Easton Ellis

This is not an exit. —
Bret Easton Ellis

My pain is constant and sharp ... this confession has meant nothing —
Bret Easton Ellis

The Smiths are singing and someone says Turn that gay angst music off. —
Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you. —
Bret Easton Ellis

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me. —
Bret Easton Ellis

What do you want, Patrick?" she sighs.
"I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately. —
Bret Easton Ellis

Don't tell me he was another serial killer, Bateman. Not another serial killer." "No, McDufus, he wasn't a serial killer, —
Bret Easton Ellis

Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, as if he is a person who simply doesn't matter. —
Bret Easton Ellis

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

did another line and believed him because it is easier to move through the motions than not to. —
Bret Easton Ellis

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world. —
Bret Easton Ellis

She's simply another girl who has gotten by on her looks - her currency in this world - and it will not be fun to watch her grow old. —
Bret Easton Ellis

And before I can stop it I find myself almost dazzled and moved that I might have the capacity to accept, though not return, her love. —
Bret Easton Ellis

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention —
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 control. —
Bret Easton Ellis

What's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it. —
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 two or three years. —
Bret Easton Ellis

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to? —
Bret Easton Ellis

Lover? se asks, her voice reminding me of someone human. —
Bret Easton Ellis