And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.
Chuck PalahniukI spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
Chuck PalahniukIf a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
Chuck Palahniuksome soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
Chuck PalahniukEven if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.
Chuck Palahniuk