335 Quotes by Bret Easton Ellis

You don't know what torture is. You don't know what you're talking about. You really don't know what you're talking about.

What do you think I do?” And frisky too.“A model?” She shrugs. “An actor?”“No,” I say. “Flattering, but no.”“Well?”“I’m into, oh, murders and executions mostly. It depends.” I shrug.“Do you like it?” she asks, unfazed.“Um… It depends. Why?” I take a bit of sorbet.“Well, most guys I know who work in mergers and acquisitions don’t really like it,” she says.“That’s not what I said,” I say, adding a forced smiled, finishing my J&B. “Oh, forget it.

The Patty Winters Show this morning was about Nazis and, inexplicably, I got a real charge out of watching it. Though I wasn't exactly charmed by their deeds, I didn't find them unsympathetic either, nor I might add did most of the members of the audience. One of the Nazis, in a rare display of humor, even juggled grapefruits and, delighted, I sat up in bed and clapped.

Talking animals were the topic of this morning's Patty Winters Show. An octopus was floating in a makeshift aquarium with a microphone attached to one of its tentacles and it kept asking - or so its "trainer," who is positive that mollusks have vocal cords, assured us - for "cheese." I watched, vaguely transfixed, until I started to sob.

I would demand to wear Ray-Ban sunglasses. Expensive Ray-Bans,” I say carefully. “In fact I would demand that everyone would have to wear Ray-Ban sunglasses.

Mi dolor es constante e intenso y no espero que haya un mundo mejor para nadie. De hecho quiero que mi dolor le sea inflingido a otros.

How is your father?” she asks disinterestedly. “A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot device.

The fact that....you categorize everything as either sexist, or racist, or homophobic, whether it is or not, and therefore harmful to you and you just can't take it, is a kind of mania, a delusion, a psychosis that we have been coddling, encouraging people to think that life should be a smooth utopia built only for them and their fragile sensibility.

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.