With every lecture, youโre forced to look again at every choice youโve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.
Chuck PalahniukWe all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck PalahniukYou turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
Chuck PalahniukThese stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
Chuck PalahniukAs a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.
Chuck Palahniuk