After a while you learn that everything stops.

- Bret Easton Ellis

I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a ver…

- Bret Easton Ellis

I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.

- Bret Easton Ellis

The better you look, the more you see.

- Bret Easton Ellis

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

- Bret Easton Ellis

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

- Bret Easton Ellis

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

- Bret Easton Ellis

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

- 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