The Infinite Library

“I don't want to die without any scars.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

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

“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?”

“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”

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

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”

“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”

“It sounds as if you'd like to be God.”

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”

“Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.”

“I write nothing but contemporary romances.”

“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”

“We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.”

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

“I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.”

“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.”

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.”

“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.”

“If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.”

“trichloroethane [...] All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge”

“You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.”

“It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.”

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

“People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.”

“The lucky ones are just born dead.”

“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”

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

“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.”

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

“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”

“We just had a near-life experience!”

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

“My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.”

“I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.”

“Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.”

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”

“My books didn't fit a marketing niche.”

“Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.”

“There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.”

“I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.”

“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”

“Skinny guys fight till they're burger.”