We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“God should be able to wink that good. Like somebody taking your picture. Give me joy. Give me fun. Give me love.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Our purest joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. The joy you feel when a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A man laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer, and a woman laments, Oh, that my joy could be… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened in the world was a decree from God. A task to be completed. Any crying or joy just got in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can… — 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