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.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.