Chuck Palahniuk

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet.”

“Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?”

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

“We are the middle children of history. We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.”

“When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep... and you're never really awake.”

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”

“I am Joe's complete lack of surprise.”

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”

“We've all been raised on 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.”

“The things you own end up owning you.”

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

“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.”

“This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.”

“Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

“We are all dying. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

“If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.”

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”

“The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.”

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.”