The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.

When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.