I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there. — 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 used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. — 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
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
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 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
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
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
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“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
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
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
“Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
