Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.

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.