Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
Chuck PalahniukRegret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.
Chuck PalahniukIf you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
Chuck PalahniukThatโs how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something weโd like to think weโve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. Itโs something youโd hoped was healed.
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 PalahniukWe don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes. There's microwaved watermelons. There's the vibrating handles of lawn mowers right at crotch level. There's vacuum cleaners and beanbag chairs. Internet sites. All those old chat room sex hounds pretending to be sixteen-year-old girls. For serious, old FBI guys makes the sexiest cyberbabes.
Chuck Palahniuk