The first rule of Fight Club is you don’t talk about Fight Club.

I just don’t want to die without a few scars.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

Marla’s philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn’t.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you’re gone.

Didn’t I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?

It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.

I don’t want to die without a few scars.

If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

Self improvement is masturbation.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can’t teach God anything.

“Getting fired,” Tyler says, “is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.”

We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don’t really need.