Bret Easton Ellis: I have to return some videotapes

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

Bret Easton Ellis

paid attention

What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?

Bret Easton Ellis

actresses doe reality

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

Bret Easton Ellis

party ends shows

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

Bret Easton Ellis

rip study done

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

Bret Easton Ellis

tough-times drinking naps

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

Bret Easton Ellis

rules-of-attraction taken together

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

Bret Easton Ellis

accused vain apathy

I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.

Bret Easton Ellis

bloodlust vacation cities

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.

Bret Easton Ellis

cities children people

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

Bret Easton Ellis

make-you-happy courses lists

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

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adept done reality

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

Bret Easton Ellis

psycho insane girl

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

Bret Easton Ellis

habit doe people

When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. 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.

Bret Easton Ellis

couple mom sweet

She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing.

Bret Easton Ellis

ignorance evil hands

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.

Bret Easton Ellis

creativity writing mean

With "Taipei" Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...

Bret Easton Ellis

stylist generations interesting

So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He...ate a balanced diet.

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sigh book looks

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

Bret Easton Ellis

cruise madness crazy

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

Bret Easton Ellis

vermont east college