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
Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You can’t kiss someone who has no lips.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live?… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give… — 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
Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take… — 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
