Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“the supreme manifestation of all his self-perceived shortcomings” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything is a self-potrait. Everything is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“How embarrassing. Give me needy emotional whining bullshit. Flash. Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle. Christ. Fuck me, I'm so tired of being… — 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