Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

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.

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight Club" all the sex happens off-screen. It's all just a noise on the other side of the wall or the ceiling. I just couldn't bring to write in a scene like that. So one of the challenges with "Choke" was I wanted to write sex scenes until I was really comfortable just writing them in a very mechanical way.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.