"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."

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

"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."

"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?"

"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it."

"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead."