That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible… — 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 Image
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 Image
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Image
