335 Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He...ate a balanced diet.

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.

The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.

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

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

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

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

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.

She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.