We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

I am nothing, and not even that.

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.