You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!
Chuck PalahniukIf you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
Chuck PalahniukThe gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.
Chuck PalahniukBeginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.
Chuck Palahniuk