Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
Chuck PalahniukThink of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. Thatโs the earth. Why it goes around. Weโre the rocks. And what happens to usโthe drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuseโwhy, thatโs just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.
Chuck PalahniukFor the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.
Chuck PalahniukAnd the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
Chuck PalahniukI'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.
Chuck PalahniukMinimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk