I think the ’80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don’t necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me – or I let happen to me – were about that decade.
BRET EASTON ELLISI totally relate to Tom Cruise. He’s not crazy, it’s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
More Bret Easton Ellis Quotes
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Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it’s not relating in prose what you’ve been doing for the last two or three years.
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Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?’ I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.
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Devastates me and I make a mental note to ask him where he purchases his hair-care products, which kind of mousse he uses, my final guesses after mulling over the possibilities being Ten-X.
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Rock ‘n’ roll. Deal with it.
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The Smiths are singing and someone says “Turn that gay angst music off.
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Hip,” I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell’s—my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
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I think a lot of snowflakes are alike…and I think a lot of people are alike too.
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We buy balloons, we let them go.
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I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal’s handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone.
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I feel like I’m not smart enough to answer the questions I’m asked.
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People are afraid to merge.
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There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.
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I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.
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