People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally 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
How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person. — 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
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
