"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."

Sex pretty much cures everything.

It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of "Fight Club." The film has a very different ending than the book does.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel.

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.