"Cable ain't an idiot, from what I heard," Reno noted. "If you gotta write a letter, then do it. An' proofread the hell outta it. If you get hot under the collar while you're lookin' it over, then it'll probably come off the same way to Durden, too. And that won't accomplish nothin'."

Reno's knee was going to bruise, at the rate he was tapping it with his finger.

"It's different if you didn't offer to teach it first, right? Maybe that's why she mentioned how she learns in the first place. So that you know the moves you got might become hers, too. Gives you the chance to back off, if you don't want her knowin' what you spent a lifetime earnin'. You agree to fight, then you're agreein' to teach her. You walk away, like you did, then it sends that message, it's yours, she ain't allowed to have it, too."