Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I’m a thirty-year-old boy, and I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer I need.

At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

"The big sleep, ‘Valley of the Dogs’ style. "Where even if someone loves you enough to save your life, they still castrate you.” Marla looks at me as if I’m the one humping her and says, "I can’t win with you, can I?”