The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.