Bret Easton Ellis

“Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an inarticulate zombie confused by the irony of Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.”

“I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.”

“I have to return some videotapes”

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

“The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at.”

“The better you look, the more you see.”

“... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, incapable of love or kindness. That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl.”

“If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the read of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor.”

“A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.”

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

“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 is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.”

“מהרמקולים שהיו ממוקמים בחוץ בקעו צלילי חריקת שלשלאות, נוסף על מגוון נאקות קורעות לב, אותנטיות לחלוטין.”

“משום מה, צירוף המילים 'הלילה הסתווי המוזהב' הדהד בראשי שוב ושוב בשעה שבחנתי את שערי.”

“אתה דומה לעצמך להפליא.”

“ויכול מאוד להיות שהסיפור הזה ישעמם אותך אבל אתה לא חייב להקשיב, היא אמרה לי, מפני שידעה תמיד שזה מה שיקרה.”

“בלוס אנג'לס, אנשים מפחדים להשתלב בגודש התנועה של הכביש המהיר.”

“Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.”

“If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.”

“But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him.Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.''What?''No I don't.'There's a pause and then I ask, 'Oh, shit, Rip, What don't you have?''I don't have anything to loose.”

“You have neither the clout nor the experience to make a threat like that, Victor.”