Chuck Palahniuk

I know this because Tyler knows this.

This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time

rch. We’d spend our entire lives at work.
“And if you never have sex,” Adam’s saying, “you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It’s by having sex that adolescents first rebel.”
And if you never have sex, Adam tells me, you never grow beyond everything else your parents taught you. If you never break the rule against sex, you won’t break any other rule.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

There, drunk in a bar where no one was watching and no one would care, I asked Tyler what he wanted me to do.
Tyler said, “I want you to hit me as hard as you can.”

I am Joe’s Blood-Boiling Rage.

Tyler’s words coming out of my mouth.
And I used to be such a nice person.

When I come home, one space monkey is reading to the assembled space monkeys who sit covering the whole first floor. “You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”

How everything you ever love will reject you or die.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die.
Everything you ever create will be thrown away.
Everything you’re proud of will end up as trash.