335 Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

Who Dunnit?′ profoundly expresses the theme of confusion against a funky groove, and what makes this song so exciting is that it ends with its narrator never finding anything out at all.

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

I am a ghost to this man, I’m thinking. I am something unreal, something not quite tangible, yet still an obstacle of sorts and he nods, gets back on the phone, resumes speaking in a dialect totally alien to me.

Everything has been degraded by what the sensory overload and the supposed freedom-of-choice technology has brought to us, and, in short, by the democratization of the arts.

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 to dissect girls. Did you know I’m utterly insane?

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.

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

Haven’t we outgrown all this tired irony? Weren’t we supposed to give up acting twenty-two forever?