Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.

Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Our real discoveries come from chaos.

Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

Your heart is my piñata.

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In "Choke" it's all of these people who think that they've saved his life, and really care about him because they've embraced him and they've been his saviors. In "Fight Club" it's all of these people who are dying of various diseases, and they thought that Edward Norton was also dying so they allowed him really strong pent-up emotions.

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.

We just had a near-life experience!

We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.

If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don’t start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze in time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old.

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.