That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

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

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In "Choke" it's all of these people who think that they've saved his life, and really care about him because they've embraced him and they've been his saviors. In "Fight Club" it's all of these people who are dying of various diseases, and they thought that Edward Norton was also dying so they allowed him really strong pent-up emotions.