So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

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

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.