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.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

I want to have your abortion.

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.

Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?