The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

I think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are all stories about people kind of falling back in love or struggling with relationships. Even Fight Club was just a big romantic ending.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.

You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.