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.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

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.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

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 longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.