The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.