A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.

It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of "Fight Club." The film has a very different ending than the book does.

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.

These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.