I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the "perfect dad"? I shudder at thinking what that may be.

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.

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

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."

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you