"I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. A spinx. a mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined."
“It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. we're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.”
"it's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. how we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed."
"if you can change the way people think, the way they see themselves, the way they see the world; if you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. and that's the only lasting thing you can create."
Chuck Palahniuk
“It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. we're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.”
"it's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. how we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed."
"if you can change the way people think, the way they see themselves, the way they see the world; if you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. and that's the only lasting thing you can create."
Chuck Palahniuk