“If you know what you’re talking about, you have a fighting chance.”

““Don’t talk to me like you understand my sins.”
“Don’t talk to me like you know what I do and do not understand.”
Alvin chuckled grimly. “Oh, that mouth you’ve got.”
“You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.””

“You are able to have disagreements as long as you’re straight talking – you say honestly what can and can’t be done.”

“The first rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club.”

“What I am really here to talk about is the central thing, the core, the nucleus—life itself. I’m not here to talk about what we should do in life. There are many options as far that is concerned and, of course, you can pick one, whatever suits you. But I’m talking about life itself without which nothing is wrong and nothing is right. Unbiased life. Maybe one day everything is going the right way for you and you’re incredibly happy. And you’re still breathing and you’re still alive. Then one day you’re really sad, and everything is terrible. And you’re still breathing; you’re still alive. That thing is never affected by what the outer circumstances are.”

“It’s a funny thing, when you talk to God, you’re religious, but when he talks to you, you’re a psychopath.”

“You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.”

“You’re a damn fool, boy. I want you to know that now, in case I don’t get a chance to tell you later.”

“Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”

“…There’s still this notion that you are somehow morally superior if you don’t know anything about the background of the writers you read, and I maintain that writers have every right to not talk their backgrounds, that’s fine, but when people do and it’s important to their work, to not know doesn’t mean you’re morally superior, it means you are indifferent…”