"That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways."

"These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful."

"For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved?With all due respect.According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get."

"Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people."

"The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone."

"Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space."

"It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth."

"Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong."

"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."

"Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one."

"I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off."

"You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

"My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me."

"This is your life and its ending one moment at a time."

"Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?"

"The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture."

"The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate."

"All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired."

"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."

"...,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I."

"That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial."

"It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities."

"Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism."

"You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself."

"We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression."

"You've thrown down the gauntlet. You've brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist, then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master."

"Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but never exactly where you'd been reading."

"When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything."

"A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."

"My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich."

"As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life."

"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."

"Your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary."

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

"A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades."

"The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies."

"Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break."

"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."

"We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them."

"What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?"

"Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?"

"Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground."

"Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality."

"I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy."

"Ignorance was bliss."

"What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises."

"It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say."

"We live and we die and anything else is just delusion. it's just passive chick bullshit about feelings and sensitivity. Just made-up subjective emotional crap. There is no soul. There is no God. There's just decisions and disease and death."

"I just don't want to die without a few scars."

"Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away."