As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose . . . watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“This isn't about love and hate," Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I just didn’t want to be fixed. Whatever my real problems might be, I didn’t want them cured. None of the little… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“How Tyler saw it was that getting God's attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe God's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“All these people who say they want a life free from sexual compulsion, I mean forget it. I mean, what could ever… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“By first believing in Santa Claus, then the Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy, Rant Casey was recognizing that those myths are… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Each holiday tradition acts as an exercise in cognitive development, a greater challenge for the child. Despite the fact most parents don't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
