Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

I feel like 'Harlem River' was me putting one foot out the door of New York, and 'Still Life' is between Point A and Point B. It's the grey area.

Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.

Arrival at a new destination only occurs from leaving your current location.

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.