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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The things you own end up owning you.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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