Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.