"I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around."

"When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?"

"If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best."

"Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself."

"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me."

"Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that the legacy we leave is written in the hearts of others."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."