...no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through… — 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
The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run… — 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
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
The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. — 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
Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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
Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Don’t ask me when because I don’t remember, but somewhere along the way I keep forgetting to commit suicide. — 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
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
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world.… — 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
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I… — 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
As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows… — 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
