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.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.