Chuck Palahniuk

I know this because Tyler knows this.

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

This should be my favorite part, being held and crying with Big Bob without hope. We all work so hard all the time. This is the only place I ever really relax and give up.

This is my vacation.

Until tonight, two years of success until tonight, because I can’t cry with this woman watching me. Because I can’t hit bottom, I can’t be saved.

The first rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.

Fight club gets to be your reason for going to the gym and keeping your hair cut short and cutting your nails. The 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.

Instead of Tyler, I felt finally I could get my hands on everything in the world that didn’t work, my cleaning that came back with the collar buttons broken, the bank that says I’m hundreds of dollars overdrawn. My job where my boss got on my computer and fiddled with my DOS execute commands. And Marla Singer, who stole the support groups from me.

I asked Tyler what he’d been fighting.

Tyler said, his father.

Most guys are at fight club because of something they’re too scared to fight. After a few fights, you’re afraid a lot less.

Who guys are in fight club is not who they are in the real world.