There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The world can be a lot better than we settle for. All you have to do is ask. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It was just one more predictable mass suicide in a world filled with splinter groups that limp along until they’re confronted.” — 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
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real. — 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 moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising… — 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
If we can forgive what’s been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we’ve done to others .… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare to inflict.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most… — 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
Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world… I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize… — 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
I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent,… — 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
