The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at it, lowering my sunglasses, something unspoken passes between me and the bird - there's this weird kind of tension, a bizarre pressure, that fuels the following, which starts, happens, ends, very quickly.

Bret Easton Ellis

Categorized in : Bird Owl Eye

No one ever likes the right person.

Bret Easton Ellis

right-person likes persons

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Bret Easton Ellis

evil

I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we?

Bret Easton Ellis

feelings people thinking

Eventually everyone has to hit the dark side of life - Someone doesn't like you, someone doesn't like your work, someone doesn't love you back... people die. What we have is a generation who are super-confident and super-positive about things, but when the least bit of darkness enters their lives, they're paralyzed.

Bret Easton Ellis

dark love-you people

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Bret Easton Ellis

doe want father

The better you look, the more you see.

Bret Easton Ellis

nightlife looks

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

Bret Easton Ellis

karma want past

Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.

Bret Easton Ellis

beautiful boys blood

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

Bret Easton Ellis

character way ideas

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

Bret Easton Ellis

disintegration stride lazy

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.

Bret Easton Ellis

car light steps

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

Bret Easton Ellis

compassion hair reality

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

Bret Easton Ellis

greed forever sex

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

Bret Easton Ellis

scream want ideas

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

Bret Easton Ellis

holding-on mines people

Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

Bret Easton Ellis

life-is-like errors writing

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

Bret Easton Ellis

care people thinking

People are afraid to merge.

Bret Easton Ellis

people

Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.

Bret Easton Ellis

issues justice sex

That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl.

Bret Easton Ellis

party girl love