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

I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author and say, "Hey, okay. I'm interrupting the narrator here. I'm Bret Easton Ellis, and I'm the author."

The better you look, the more you see.

Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.