Author: Bret Easton Ellis

Cites

• Bhagavad Gita (1)
  • IN: Glamorama (1998) Satire, American
    EPIGRAPH: There was no time when you nor I nor these kings did not exist
    FROM: Bhagavad Gita, (-150), Hindu scripture, India
• Adolf Hitler (1)
  • IN: Glamorama (1998) Satire, American
    EPIGRAPH: You make a mistake if you see what we do as merely political
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany
• Thomas McGuane (1)
  • IN: Lunar Park (2005) Postmodern literature, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.
    FROM: Panama, (1978), Novel, US
• John O'Hara (1)
  • IN: Lunar Park (2005) Postmodern literature, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: People who have made up their minds about a man do not like to have their opinions changed, to reverse their judgements on account of some new evidence or new arguments, and the man who tries to compel them to change their minds is at least wasting his time, and he may be asking for trouble.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Lunar Park (2005) Postmodern literature, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past That youth and observation copied there.
    FROM: Hamlet, I:v.98, (1603), Play, UK
• John Fante (2)
  • IN: The Informers (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Bunker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles....
    FROM: Ask the Dust, (1939), Novel, Italy/US
• Led Zeppelin (1)
  • IN: Less Than Zero (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There’s a feeling I get when I look to the West...
    FROM: Stairway to Heaven, (1971), Song, UK
• Tim O’Brien (1)
  • IN: The Rules of Attraction (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The facts, even when beaded on a chain, still did not have real order. Events did not flow...
    FROM: Going After Cacciato, (1978), Novel, US
• Elvis Costello (1)
  • IN: Imperial Bedrooms (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
    FROM: Beyond Belief, (1982), Song, UK
• Raymond Chandler (1)
  • IN: Imperial Bedrooms (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself
    FROM: The Long Goodbye, (1953), Novel, US/England
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)
  • IN: American Psycho (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Both the author of these Notes and the Notes themselves are, of course, fictional. Nevertheless, such persons as the composer of these Notes not only exist in our society, but indeed must exist, considering the circumstances under which our society has genearlly been formed. I have wished to bring before the public, somewhat more distinctly than usual, one of the characters of our recent past. He represents a generation that is still living out its days among us. In the fragment entitled "Underground" this personage described himself and his views and attempts, as it were, to clarify the reasons why he appeared and was bound to appear in our midst. The subsequent fragment will consist of the actual "notes," concerning certain events in his life.
    FROM: Notes from Underground, (1864), Novel, Russia
• Miss Manners (Judith Martin) (1)
  • IN: American Psycho (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all about -- doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed every impulse, we'd be killing one another.
    FROM: Miss Manners on Office Etiquette, (1989), Article, US
• Talking Heads (1)
  • IN: American Psycho (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And as things fell apart Nobody paid much attention
    FROM: (Nothing but) Flowers, (1988), Song, US
• X (1)
  • IN: Less Than Zero (1985) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This is the game that moves as you play...
    FROM: Have Nots, (1982), Song, US

Cited by

• John Burley (2)
  • IN: No Mercy (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gropping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.
    FROM: American Psycho, (1991), Novel, US
  • IN: The Absence of Mercy (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I am simply not there.
    FROM: American Psyco, (1991), Novel, US