Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

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

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

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

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

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

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.

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.

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

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.

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 and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.

The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

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

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

All of my books come from pain.

Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.

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

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

After a while you learn that everything stops.

You learn to move on without the people you love.

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

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

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

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

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

Price. You're priceless.

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.

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.

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

I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.

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

People are afraid to merge.

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

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

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

I think we've all lost some kind of feeling.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

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.

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.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

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.