Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk, Diary, 2003

[S]ometimes, for an artist chronic pain can be a gift.

The weather today is increasing concern followed by full-blown dread.

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait.... "The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face." You're doomed to being you. This, he says, leaves us free to draw anything, since we're only drawing ourselves. Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away.... Everything is a self-portrait.

Today is the longest day of the year—but anymore, every day is.