Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

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

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.