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.

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

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