You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained,… — 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
The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered… — 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… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She… — 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
I think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the… — 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
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph… — 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
