You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way. — 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
“Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or… — 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
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
Getting fired,’ Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand.… — 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
