Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.
Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.
I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.
Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.