Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done.

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."

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

Price. You're priceless.

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

I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.