My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
Chuck PalahniukGenerations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.
Chuck PalahniukSometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.
Chuck PalahniukI'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.
Chuck Palahniuk