It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

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.

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the truth, I was a little bored with drugs and sex, and I thought I'd do the writing thing.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.