Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

I would pay snakes to bite her.

A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her kids won't behave. Without missing a beat, I tell her, Kill yourself. A man calls to say his car won't start. Kill yourself. A woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. Kill yourself. She asks, "Isn't this 555-1327? Is this the Moorehouse CinePlex? I say, Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Kill yourself.

The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

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.

Don’t ask me when be­cause I don’t re­mem­ber, but some­where along the way I keep for­get­ting to com­mit sui­cide.

I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.

It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.