The Narrator

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving."

"You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you."

"Reject the basic assumptions of civilization."

"You're not your problem. Your problem is a symptom of something greater."

"Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy."

"If you don't know what you want, you end up helping other people accomplish their dreams."

"The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."

"I see all this potential, and I see it squandered."

"You're a slave to the history of your name."

"Human beings are not supposed to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day."

"We were promised greatness. We were promised transcendence."

"It's only in death that we realize what we're supposed to do with our lives."

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"You're going to have to give up."

"I want to have meaning in my life. What is meaning?"

"We're living in a corporate-sponsored reality."

"Letting go is the hardest part."

"You wake up at Sea Tack. You wake up at the Doubletree. When it rains it smells like wet earth."

"I had insomnia. Nothing to do at night but leave messages on the answering machines of friends."

"With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away."

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

"You do the little job you're supposed to do. You play by the rules."

"Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single-serving packets of ketchup."

"You're creating a false sense of self."

"We're not special. We're not crap or trash either. We just are."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"You don't have to see it. I'm always around."

"Everything you know is wrong."

"You're not your khakis, you're not your job, you're not even your name."

"Feeling nothing is a wonderful experience."