A 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 PalahniukPeople used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck PalahniukEveryone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.
Chuck PalahniukIt's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
Chuck Palahniuk