A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. — 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
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
If you make people laugh too much, their blood becomes - I believe it is acidic as opposed to alkaline. It changes… — 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
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh… — 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
The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner… — 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
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
I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and… — 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
