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
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
My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . .… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. — 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
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
Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts. — 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
