Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.