A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that, even before you finish the anecdote, you can see their eyes shining because it has so resonated with something from their own lives that everyone in the group has a version of the same story and they cannot wait to tell it, and that they're going to compete to make their version even more extreme than your version. So your version is just a seed.
Chuck PalahniukThere are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.
Chuck PalahniukIf a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
Chuck PalahniukBurn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
Chuck Palahniuk