These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.