The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.