335 Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

I never liked anyone and I’m afraid of people.

I needed something – the distraction of another life – to alleviate fear.

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists?

Honey?” she asks. “Don’t call me that,” I snap. “What? Honey?” she asks. “Yes,” I snap again. “What do you want me to call you?” she asks, indignantly. “CEO?” She stifles a giggle. “Oh Christ.” “No, really Patrick. What do you want me to call you?” King, I’m thinking.

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

And later my macabre joy sours and I’m weeping for myself, unable to find solace in any of this, crying out, sobbing, “I just want to be loved,” cursing the earth and everything I have been taught: principles, distinctions, choices, morals, compromises, knowledge, unity, prayer – all of it was wrong, without any final purpose.

I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author’s photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.

I don’t know why I write what I write.

It’s the rare book that’s able to transport you in a way that a movie does.