Quotes from Bret Easton Ellis

I also think that Phil Collins works better within the confines of the group than as a solo artist—and I stress the word artist. In fact it applies to all three of the guys, because Genesis is still the best, most exciting band to come out of England in the 1980s.

I feel anchored, calm, even with Evelyn sitting across from me prattling on about a very large Faberge egg she thought she saw at the Pierre, rolling around the lobby of its own accord or something like that.

Luis Carruthers ... takes the seat next to mine which means I'm supposed to take off my walkman

I've adapted; these events have toughened me and I'm prepared to deal with this particular topic.

So we wouldn't run out of things to talk about over lunch, I tried to read a trendy new short-story collection called Wok that I bought at Barnes & Noble last night and whose young author was recently profiled in the Fast Track section of New York magazine, but every story started off with the line When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie and I had to put this slim volume back into my bookshelf and drink a J&B on the rocks, followed by two Xanax, to recover from the effort.

Cualquiera que fuera el interés que compartían se evaporó tan rápido que pareció no haber existido en absoluto. Robby se nos acercó penosamente bajo el destello de las luces del centro comercial y de pronto me preocupó que su vida tuviera tan poco de poesía o romanticismo. Todo giraba en torno a una cotidianidad ansiosa y aburrida. Todo era una representación

The better you look, the more you see

is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in … this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged … "…

The Art of the Deal, by Donald Trump. "Have you read it?" I ask Kimball.

I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at The Four Seasons in twenty minutes anyway," I lie, standing up.

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

I concentrate on the Absolut and cranberry I'm holding and it looks like a glassful of thin, watery blood with ice and a lemon wedge in it.

Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in … this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged …

The topic on The Patty Winters Show this morning was Has Patrick Swayze Become Cynical or Not?

Redken product that prevents mineral deposits and prolongs the life cycle of hair.

The album ends with "Slammin'," which has no words and it's just a lot of horns that quite frankly, if you turn it up really loud, can give you a fucking big headache and maybe even make you feel a little sick, though it might sound different on an album or on a cassette though I wouldn't know anything about that. Anyway it set off something wicked in me that lasted for days. And you cannot dance to it very well.

there's no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

It's a world where getting stoned is the only option.

Above one of the doors covered by red velvet drapes in Harry's is a sign and on the sign in letters that match the drapes' color are the words THIS IS NOT AN EXIT.

Back at our table Reeves is telling Hamlin about how he taunts the homeless in the streets, about how he hands a dollar to them as he approaches and then yanks it away and pockets it right when he passes the bums.

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.

get into Zeus Bar. Kaktus. Kaktus at nine." "But

Tengo hambre –repite. –Oiga. ¿Cree usted que está bien pedirle dinero a la gente que trabaja? ¿A quien tiene trabajo? Se le contrae la cara y dice entrecortadamente, con una voz ronca: –¿Qué puedo hacer?

BretEastonEllis 31 Mar After watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of the viewer via technology.