335 Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation.

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.

Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?" [...] "'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.'" I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. "What does the other part of him think?" Hamlin asks tentatively. "What her head would look like on a stick

I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body

I am gripped by an existential panic.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

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.

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.

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