I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.

You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.