Mike Shiner:
Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige.

Note on Riggan's dressing room mirror:
A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other”
― Slavoj Zizek

“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”
― Slavoj Žižek

Divinity classes were unspeakably dull, and I felt a downright fear of the mathematics class.

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn’t even know what numbers really were.

They were not flowers, not animals, not fossils; they were nothing that could be imagined, mere quantities that resulted from counting.

To my confusion these quantities were now represented by letters, which signified sounds, so that it became possible to hear them, so to speak.

Oddly enough, my classmates could handle these things and found them self-evident.

No one could tell me what numbers were, and I was unable even to formulate the question.

To my horror I found that no one understood my difficulty.


- Carl Jung

"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me."

- Frank Herbert, 'Dune'.

“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex.”
― Jacques Lacan, On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost