Bret Easton Ellis quotes

Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist, screenwriter, and cultural critic, famous for his provocative and controversial works. His novels, such as "American Psycho" and "Less Than Zero," explore themes of consumerism, violence, and alienation in contemporary society. He continues to influence literature and pop culture with his unique voice and unapologetic approach. Here are 104 of his quotes:

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

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.

Bret Easton Ellis

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

Bret Easton Ellis

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

Bret Easton Ellis

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.

Bret Easton Ellis

And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea...

Bret Easton Ellis

But... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly. "The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.

Bret Easton Ellis

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

Bret Easton Ellis

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

Bret Easton Ellis

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Bret Easton Ellis

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

Bret Easton Ellis

Price. You're priceless.

Bret Easton Ellis

Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.

Bret Easton Ellis

...and it's a story that might bore you but you don't have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks, her first year, or actually weekend, really a Friday, in September, at Camden, and this was three or four years ago, and she got so drunk that she ended up in bed, lost her virginity (late, she was eighteen) in Lorna Slavin's room, because she was a Freshman and had a roommate and Lorna was, she remembers, a Senior or Junior and usually somestimes at her boyfriend's place off-campus, to who she thought was a Sophomore Ceramics major but who was actually either some guy from N.Y.U., a film student, and up in New Hampshire just for The Dressed to Get Screwed party, or a townie.

Bret Easton Ellis

It's definitely the book that I can tell-I don't know if other people can tell but I can tell as a writer–-is probably the most divisive that I've written. It has an equal number of detractors as it does fans. It doesn't really hold true with the other books. It was the one that took the longest to write, and the one that seemed the most important at the time. It's an unwieldy book... I like it.

Bret Easton Ellis

It might be my favorite book of mine. It was a very exciting time in my life. I was writing that book while I was at college. Sort of like the best of times, the worst of times. There was a lot of elation, there was a lot of despair. It was just a really fun book to write. I loved mimicking all the different voices. The stream of conscious does get a little out of hand. I kind of like that about the book. It's kind of all over the place. It's casual. It's scruffy. That's the one book of mine that I have a very, very soft spot for.

Bret Easton Ellis

That doesn't sound like...the Jayster.

Bret Easton Ellis

I'm Christian Bale", Russel, says, taking [her hand]. "Oh right," she says. "Yeah, I thought I recognized you. You're the actor.

Bret Easton Ellis

No one ever likes the right person.

Bret Easton Ellis

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Bret Easton Ellis

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

Bret Easton Ellis

The better you look, the more you see.

Bret Easton Ellis