Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

Which is worse, hell or nothing?

You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight Club" all the sex happens off-screen. It's all just a noise on the other side of the wall or the ceiling. I just couldn't bring to write in a scene like that. So one of the challenges with "Choke" was I wanted to write sex scenes until I was really comfortable just writing them in a very mechanical way.

Our real discoveries come from chaos.