"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 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 is going to be about."

"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."

"More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself."

"It is a enduring truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience."

"It is a steadfast truth that the greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"It is a profound truth that stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity — an essential principle for the reflective life."