Art never comes from happiness.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

I don’t want to die without any scars.

Why do I do anything?’ she says. ‘I’m educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I’m so smart I can negate any dream.

No one wants to admit we’re addicted to music. That’s just not possible. No one’s addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume....

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

It’s creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.What it’s going to be, I don’t...

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our...

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: ‘Writers write because they weren’t invited to a party.’ That always struck so true, and people always nod...

If nothing else, there’s comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don’t want to waste my time with them.

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris’s books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

I thought ‘Fight Club’ was great as David Fincher’s version.

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

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

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you’re useless to me.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that’s the only lasting...

How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as closely as do prisons. Few marriages sustain...

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

A quello che non capisci puoi dare qualunque significato.

People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

I believe in something. But I don’t believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

If you flee from the things you fear, there’s no resolution.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that’s much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I’ll be incredibly social, and I won’t write a word for maybe a year, and I’ll just be with people, going to parties...

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that ‘Fight Club’ is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

And it’s funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

Si tal vez no necesitáramos de un personaje mítico y salvaje para representar nuestras vidas en proceso de desaparición.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don’t know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never...

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Good news didn’t seem real until you’d told at least a dozen friends.

We’ve taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

Since boyhood, fury had become his father. His older brother. His only protector. Fury gave him strength and courage and spurred him to always move forward despite always getting things wrong and always failing and...

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of fight club.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life...

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It’s kind of like trick-or-treating.