I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.