The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to… — 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
“Now, smile-if you still can. This is your zygomatic major muscle. Each contraction pulls your flesh apart the way tiebacks hold open… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“This is how I found the strength not to get on with my former life. This is how I found the courage… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You do the job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Get out of here, and do your little life, but remember I’m watching you, Raymond Hessel, and I’d rather kill you than… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Kill yourself or don’t kill yourself, but stop torturing me. I’m trying to move on with my life.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We were all so worried about our worst fears, squeezing frogs, eating worms, poisons, asbestos, we never considered how boring life would… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize… — 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
