Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

I think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are all stories about people kind of falling back in love or struggling with relationships. Even Fight Club was just a big romantic ending.

Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?

And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.