"My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen."

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

"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."

"I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them."

"You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not."

"I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention."

"An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision."

"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."