Bret Easton Ellis Quotes - Page 3

There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.

Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.

People are afraid to merge.

I am gripped by an existential panic.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

All of my books come from pain.

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

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.

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

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

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

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.

You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.

And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.

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

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

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

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

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

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

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.

Hello, Halberstam," Owen says, walking by. Hello, Owen," I say, admiring the way he's styled and slicked back his hair, with a part so even and sharp it... devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.

The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my sunglasses, something unspoken passes between me and the bird - there's this weird kind of tension, a bizarre pressure, that fuels the following, which starts, happens, ends, very quickly.