The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Chuck PalahniukI didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.
Chuck PalahniukThe same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.
Chuck PalahniukGame shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Chuck PalahniukA male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
Chuck PalahniukI know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism.
Chuck Palahniuk