Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.

There will always be an underground.

Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're trapped in your hotel room. It's the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner.Our Stair Master to Heaven.

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.

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