I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.

I think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are all stories about people kind of falling back in love or struggling with relationships. Even Fight Club was just a big romantic ending.

I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.