Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.