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.

I'm only confrontational with my friends.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.