Quotes from Bret Easton Ellis

He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures with the world, showcasing the youthful indifference, the gleaming nihilism, glamorizing the horror of it all.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing, I tell her.

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 use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I'm tortured by.

You should never mistake affection for … passion," I warn her. "It can be … not good. It can … get you into, well, trouble.

I'm resourceful, Price is saying. I'm creative, I'm young, unscrupulous, highly motivate, highly skilled. In essence what I'm saying is that society can not afford to lose me. I'm an asset

suddenly I'm seized by a minor anxiety attack. There are too many fucking movies to choose from.

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

Patrick Bateman: I'm on a diet. Jean: What, you're kidding, right? You look great... so fit... and thin. Patrick Bateman: Well, you can always be thinner... look better. Jean: Then maybe we shouldn't go out to dinner. I wouldn't want you to lose your willpower. Patrick Bateman: That's okay. I'm not very good at controlling it anyway. Share this quote

Most importantly we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people.

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

Where are we going? I asked I don't know, he said. Just driving. But this road doesn't go anywhere, I told him. That doesn't matter. What does? I asked, after a little while. Just that we're on it, dude, he said.

I want to take you away from this, I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. From sushi and elves and... STUFF.

A child should never even think about being a good son. A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.

From those of us who are left behind: you will be remembered, you were the one I needed, I loved you in my dreams.

Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before.

There is music playing somewhere but I can't hear it.

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

I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.

Who is this girl? Why is she alive? Wonder if I should leave right now. Get up and say, 'Goodnight fuck-ups, it's been a sheer sensation and I hope I never see any of you again,' and leave?

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

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