Taken from The Attractions of Bret Easton Ellis by Randy Shulman

MW: What about you though? My recollection of you was that you were a gay author.

ELLIS: Really? That’s fine. I have no problem with that. I guess I just don’t think in those terms, and I definitely don’t identify as gay. But I wouldn’t identify myself necessarily with straight either. I have no problem being asked these things in interviews, but it is sort of weird to talk about your sexual preferences or "sex life " in a public forum. I find it really, really awkward. And this is whether I was married or dating Julia Roberts or whatever.

I liked it when the Advocate put me on its one hundred most interesting gay persons list. I am by no means upset about it. I like it. It drives some of my friends nuts maybe, but I think it’s cool. I’ve played around with my persona in terms of its sexuality, and I’ve made various comments over the years that I’m straight, I’m bi, I’m gay, I’m whatever you want me to be. And you know what? To me that’s the most honest answer. It’s the one I’m most comfortable with. I have no problem with people identifying me as anything -- except as a bad writer.

Robert Love, "Psycho Analysis," Rolling Stone, Apr. 4 1991, pp. 50-1.

An interviewer asked Ellis if he believed in God. This is what he replied: "Are you asking me if I was raised in a religious family or if I go to church? I was raised an agnostic. I don't know - I hate to fly, I have a fear of flying. That means either that I have no faith in air-traffic controllers or that I've done something really bad, and this is God's way of getting at me. Maybe I'm caught in the middle... But no, I don't believe in God. That's such a strange thing to admit in an interview."