History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.
El futuro que tendrás mañana no es el mismo futuro que tenías ayer.
A girl calls and asks, Does it hurt very much to die?Well, sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
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 th...
Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.
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 t...
Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any lo...
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
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...
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
… and the things you used to own, now they own you.
This is the upside of already being eternally damned
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We will fling it at one another for laughs. Distort it. We will toss the story into the air at parties a...
This is something I’ll go to Hell for.
They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.