Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
Chuck PalahniukWeโd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial weโd survive to talk about.
Chuck PalahniukYou don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done.
Chuck PalahniukYou're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap.
Chuck PalahniukSo this is why I write. Because most times, your life isnโt funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. Thatโs why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you canโt control life, at least you can control your version.
Chuck Palahniuk