What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after." Really? "Really," she says. "So don't sweat it.

During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.