By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.