Bret Easton Ellis

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

“I have to return some videotapes”

“Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.”

“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.”

“He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- except of course to Blair, and really not even to her. He was simply someone who floated thro...”

“The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.”

“The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.”

“What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?”

“Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.”

“Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really...”

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

“I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.”

“Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot becaus...”

“I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.”