335 Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

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.

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

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.

All of my books come from pain.

I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author and say, "Hey, okay. I'm interrupting the narrator here. I'm Bret Easton Ellis, and I'm the author."

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.

After a while you learn that everything stops.

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