The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

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.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

I want to have your abortion.