So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?
Chuck PalahniukA hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.
Chuck PalahniukWhen you go out with a drunk, youโll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as youโre drinking, drinking is okay. Twoโs company. Drinking is fun. If thereโs a bottle, even if your glass isnโt empty, a drunk, heโll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.
Chuck PalahniukAs young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.
Chuck Palahniuk