A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It does not matter. The joke is we all have the same punch line.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life -… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at… — 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
