So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

I am Jack's smirking revenge.

Our real discoveries come from chaos.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.