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
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
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
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
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 only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. — 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
