As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce, and you rarely t...
BRET ELLIS I totally relate to Tom Cruise, ... He?s not crazy, it?s just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
BRET ELLIS I grew up in suburbia,
BRET ELLIS The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy...
BRET ELLIS Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction â€âÂ...
BRET ELLIS I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
BRET ELLIS It should have been written already,
BRET ELLIS Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's
BRET ELLIS I have to return some videotapes
BRET EASTON ELLIS I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Mailer is a genius. He's the one I most connect with in terms of fiction — his range is so wide. T...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
BRET EASTON ELLIS And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around....
BRET EASTON ELLIS And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I locked myself in a room for a month,
BRET EASTON ELLIS I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
BRET EASTON ELLIS He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I hadn't published a book in six years so I didn't know what to expect. It has been going very well....
BRET EASTON ELLIS you simply didn't have to pay as much attention to things. The precise pose was no longer required.
BRET EASTON ELLIS I'm a believer that a book should exist on its own,
BRET EASTON ELLIS Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
BRET EASTON ELLIS I didn't want to write another long experimental novel.
BRET EASTON ELLIS Fun is what reading a book should be. I had fun writing it. I wanted a reader to be gripped but it s...
BRET EASTON ELLIS everything that I find horrible about society.
BRET EASTON ELLIS [Stepping out from the shadow of Psycho , and such other iconic works as Less Than Zero and The Rule...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchco...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come ba...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foa...
BRET EASTON ELLIS The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.
BRET EASTON ELLIS As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce, and you rarely t...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET EASTON ELLIS It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
BRET EASTON ELLIS She said that you--"
"I don't care what she said." I stand up. "Everyone lies."
"Hey," h...
BRET EASTON ELLIS How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
BRET EASTON ELLIS Disappear Here.
The syringe fills with blood.
You're a beautiful boy and that's all that m...
BRET EASTON ELLIS A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humble...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.
BRET EASTON ELLIS I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces hims...
BRET EASTON ELLIS It should have been written already,
BRET EASTON ELLIS We were all such Didion junkies in college that might still be the highlight of my career.
BRET EASTON ELLIS After spending three years with Patrick Bateman (from 1991's
BRET EASTON ELLIS The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy...
BRET EASTON ELLIS If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something trau...
BRET EASTON ELLIS But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visi...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Looking at Tim, one cannot help feeling great waves of uncertainty, an absence of aim, of purpose, a...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Akthent on thee latht thyllable.
BRET EASTON ELLIS I’m drinking a glass of water in the empty hotel bar at the Principe di Savoia and staring at the ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
BRET EASTON ELLIS All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.
BRET EASTON ELLIS I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization...
BRET EASTON ELLIS ...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I sudd...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.
BRET EASTON ELLIS But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to lea...
BRET EASTON ELLIS What you need is a chick from Camden,' Van Patten says, after recovering from McDermott's statement....
BRET EASTON ELLIS what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I don’t want to care. If I care about things, it’ll just be worse, it’ll just be another thing...
BRET EASTON ELLIS There are some guys sitting at tables who all look at this one gorgeous girl, longingly, hoping for ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS There was a song I heard when I was in Los Angeles by a local group. The song was called ‘Los Ange...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Disappear here.
BRET EASTON ELLIS And as the elevator descends, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even farther down...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I want to go back," Daniel says, quietly, with effort.
"Where?" I ask, unsure.
There's a l...
BRET EASTON ELLIS where are we going?' I asked.
'I don't know,' he said. 'just driving.'
'But this road does...
BRET EASTON ELLIS What's the difference between a J.A.P and spaghetti? Spaghetti moves when you eat it.
BRET EASTON ELLIS You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it.
BRET EASTON ELLIS and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Will you call me before Christmas?' she asks.
Maybe.' I pull on my vest, wondering why I even c...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Nothing. Nothing makes me happy. I like nothing," I tell her.
BRET EASTON ELLIS What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest.
'What do you do?'
'What do you do?' she a...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I...
BRET EASTON ELLIS there was a song i heard when i was in los angeles by a local group. the song was called "los angele...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Fear never shows up and the party ends early.
BRET EASTON ELLIS And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down,...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Where are we going?" I asked
"I don't know," he said. "Just driving."
"But this road doesn...
BRET EASTON ELLIS People are afraid to merge.
BRET EASTON ELLIS And later when we got into the car, he took a turn down a street that I was pretty sure was a dead e...
BRET EASTON ELLIS The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were s...
BRET EASTON ELLIS She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm s...
BRET EASTON ELLIS But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him.
Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.' BRET EASTON ELLIS I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to wo...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Clay, did you ever love me?"
I'm studying a billboard and say that I didn't hear what she said....
BRET EASTON ELLIS Disappear here
BRET EASTON ELLIS But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him.
“That doesn't matter.”
“What does?...
BRET EASTON ELLIS The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?"
[...]
"'When I see a pretty girl walking down ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
BRET EASTON ELLIS Things
changing, failing apart, fading, another year, a few more
moves, a hard person who ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
BRET EASTON ELLIS I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Why not? Give me one good reason why we shouldn't get married."
Because trying to fuck you is l...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, f...
BRET EASTON ELLIS How is your father?” she asks disinterestedly.
“A contrivance,” I mutter. “A plot devi...
BRET EASTON ELLIS What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.
BRET EASTON ELLIS A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
BRET HARTE One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
BRET HARTE The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
BRET HARTE Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.
BRET HARTE My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
BRET MICHAELS They jumped up and made shots right away on us and then we couldn't stop the bleeding.
BRET CAMPBELL We certainly would like to think our size could make a difference. We do have some size for the OVC ...
BRET CAMPBELL I think they are unselfish. ... I think Duncan and Reed are the glue that holds them together.
BRET CAMPBELL We're usually about as good as No. 3 (Kelly) and No. 1 (Newson) are on most nights.
BRET CAMPBELL We feel a lot better about ourselves. First, Jared Newsom and Jeremy Kelly have stepped back up to t...
BRET CAMPBELL (Kelly) was productive early but has not been as productive late. He has a severe bruised thumb and ...
BRET CAMPBELL It's a good time to freshen her up.
BRET CALHOUN I had heard about this place in the past, and you knew it was like that. But, yeah, it has amazed me...
BRET CALHOUN We liked her before we ever started her the first time. She's got a lot of class, a lot of heart. Th...
BRET CALHOUN We know she has a grass pedigree, but we thought she had a good shot. You're not going to get to run...
BRET CALHOUN They have a good series, so we'll stick with that route. She seems to have worked over the track ver...
BRET CALHOUN We got a lot of things going on. Real big day.
BRET BRIELMAIER It's going to take ball movement and defense. They are a great offensive team. I think our pressure ...
BRET BRIELMAIER He gets the whole team wanting to play defense.
BRET BRIELMAIER He wanted to let us know he was rooting for us and wished he could be here. He called us all and sai...
BRET BRIELMAIER I just try to go in there and bring some energy, play defense and rebound. I try to be more physical...
BRET BRIELMAIER I'm not as physically gifted as some of the other guys. I can't jump like Hassan (Adams), but I try ...
BRET BRIELMAIER I'm prepared for this; I know what it will take, because I've had a weird career full of ups and dow...
BRET BOONE I want to play again; I intend to play again,
BRET BOONE I'm getting a little of the hunger to play ball back,
BRET BOONE I look at this as a tremendous opportunity. Last year was a season I'd like to forget. The Mets have...
BRET BOONE Usually when I don't talk to him too much, it's a good thing.
BRET BOONE I've got four months of hard [weight-]lifting ahead of me, ... I've been keeping up, eating right. B...
BRET BOONE There wasn't anything physically wrong. I hit a professional wall. My swing got sideways. I was off ...
BRET BOONE [They could become only the third team in major league history to win 90 games one season and lose 1...
BRET BOONE Everybody is playing like [doo doo].
BRET BOONE These are two things I feel strongly about, ... So half of the proceeds go to the hurricane victims,...
BRET BOONE It was something that if we practiced well the first couple days down here we knew this was going to...
BRET BIELEMA One thing I think you have to do here at Wisconsin is maximize your personnel. From the standpoint o...
BRET BIELEMA After the second day, he's got it mastered, too. He's just a guy who takes a lot of pride in what we...
BRET BIELEMA There was an immediate need at wide receivers, defensive backs and offensive linemen. We hadn't got ...
BRET BIELEMA We're going to try to get as many people in the stands as possible. Make it a game-day environment.
BRET BIELEMA The one thing I knew as a head coach (was) I wanted to hire coaches that are good and eventually, as...
BRET BIELEMA We knew they were going to line up in 12 personnel (one back, two tight ends) and run their inside z...
BRET BIELEMA Those guys have been in the program now for two years, basically. They're not young anymore. We expe...
BRET BIELEMA Anybody we offered (a scholarship to) in the state of Wisconsin is in this program now.
BRET BIELEMA Dave kind of reminds me of myself when I went with Bobby. He made all the calls on Saturday but I wa...
BRET BIELEMA The good news is children's related programs tend to be ones that receive a good bit of support, but...
BRET BICOY What's so promising about this is that we have all recognized as individual organizations that we ca...
BRET BICOY If he were a guy in jail, nobody would think anything of it. He was able to channel that energy, tha...
BRET BICOY We expect (contributions in) 2006 to be larger than ever before. People are recognizing that Souther...
BRET BICOY Many of the families we deal with have the means, capacity and connections to go anywhere in the wor...
BRET BICOY He really has improved his technique. His style is much different. He attacks.
BRET WOJCIK I'm real happy with the way he wrestled. He's still young and he's come a long way.
BRET WOJCIK He never stops working. He is great to have in the wrestling room.
BRET WOJCIK It came down to his match.
BRET WOJCIK He [Walker] was a tough kid. He was stronger. He was quicker.
BRET WOJCIK This is money they would have never gotten.
BRET WITKOWSKI My goal is 10 a day.
BRET WITKOWSKI It may take until the end of the year.
BRET WITKOWSKI That would be the worst case.
BRET WITKOWSKI I tell you what, I'm proud of our kids. I felt like we had a great year. We got ourselves in an oppo...
BRET WARNACK We had some unbelievable defensive plays. The ball we lost in kind of the twilight time Maddux did ...
BRET WARNACK We didn't do a whole lot right tonight. We put ourselves in a hole early in the game, but we still h...
BRET WARNACK I tell you what, I'm proud of our kids. I felt like we had a great year. We got ourselves in an oppo...
BRET WARNACK That kid we faced tonight is a very good pitcher. I think he threw two no-hitters last year. We beat...
BRET WARNACK Our guards are pretty talented and they can run the floor. So we've turned them loose a little bit m...
BRET WALTER They came out yesterday and got after Spring Creek and played with such intensity and emotion. They ...
BRET WALTER He played great defense. He's always there in the middle to kind of clog it up. And he definitely wa...
BRET WALTER That was beneficial to us to play teams that are going to come out and put pressure on you and are r...
BRET WALTER The success from last year, it has just helped the kids. It was easier to build on that.
BRET WALTER We met in the motel room (and talked about Stokes). Jordan Stokes is one of the best players in the ...
BRET WALTER Jordan Stokes is a great player, one of the best players in the North in the 3A. We felt like (Norma...
BRET WALTER He had a big tournament. Chad, he probably got half his points on hustle plays. And he was always th...
BRET WALTER We're pretty excited. I don't really know what to expect.
BRET TUETKEN Like everyone else, they wanted to take Hope and Maria out of the game. I told the girls earlier tod...
BRET TUETKEN Our girls are pretty level headed. They know even though we have beaten them by double digits all th...
BRET TUETKEN We won 20 games last year playing a lot of sophomores but we never won that game against an elite te...
BRET TUETKEN The one thing about this team is they go out every night and expect to win. You can't teach that. It...
BRET TUETKEN It's interesting, I know that. I don't know if I'd say it's fun. It would be nice if we had another ...
BRET TUETKEN Every night, if we need a lift, someone has given it to us. It seems like it's someone different eac...
BRET TUETKEN We'll get a half-hour shoot-around on the Redbird Arena floor, and that's great for all the teams to...
BRET TUETKEN We were slugging it out back and forth. Thankfully, they didn't get in the last punch.
BRET TUETKEN She was just the dominant player out on the floor. They tried to go zone for a while and she hit a 3...
BRET TUETKEN Bo probably had the best overall day. He just had a winning day all around.
BRET THOMPSON We had the most problems when both teams started playing man-to-man. When they went to a zone, we st...
BRET THOMPSON Our defense definitely kept us in the game. We aren't giving up easy shots. When we played Harrison,...
BRET THOMPSON That's what the state tournament is all about. Every team there is a good team. It wasn't necessaril...
BRET THOMPSON Chester played more like we do, with ball pressure out front. We just didn't do a very good job of t...
BRET THOMPSON I'm sure the other teams are thinking they made the difference, but from my perspective we made thin...
BRET THOMPSON This is unbelievable. I'd never imagined it would feel like this. Other than my kids being born, thi...
BRET TEUTKEN The last three or four games we've had some close games, and the fourth quarter we have pretty much ...
BRET TEUTKEN I thought we came out in the first half extremely focused and very intense. They just never did have...
BRET TEUTKEN Hope is tough to guard. We've seen teams try smaller, quicker players on her and taller and a little...
BRET TEUTKEN We were slugging it out, back and forth. Luckily, they didn't get the last punch.
BRET TEUTKEN Normally, we're good free-throw shooters. We were lucky to hang on and get it.
BRET TEUTKEN People feel there is a witch hunt going on [with code enforcement]. My heart is with the Guatemalan ...
BRET TAYLOR Ajax cannot do everything. Web applications have a way to go.
BRET TAYLOR People wanted mapping to be more integrated in their search. This really changes the local search pa...
BRET TAYLOR It felt pretty good to beat the team that finished up second last year. It was a good opportunity to...
BRET TAYLOR It is a good start. Last year at this tournament we went 6-2 and went three games with everybody. Th...
BRET TAYLOR We wanted to encourage that type of innovation because we know a lot of the great things we can do w...
BRET TAYLOR Our long-term goal is to have our product give directions that are as good as the taxi driver. Certa...
BRET TAYLOR It wasn't the prettiest game we've played but this time of year, it's survival that matters. The thi...
BRET REEDY