Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes, Denny says and sniffs, it's like I want to be beaten and punished. It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe.

Por que causei tanta dor? Eu não entendia que cada um de nós é sagrado, um floco de neve único e especial em sua individualidade única e especial? Não conseguia ver como todos nós somos manifestações do amor? Olho para Deus atrás da mesa tomando notas em um bloquinho. Deus entendeu tudo errado. Nós não somos especiais. Também não somos um lixo ou uma merda. Apenas somos. Apenas existimos e o que acontecer aconteceu.

Mentre picchiavo quel ragazzo, in realtà avrei voluto piantare una pallottola tra gli occhi di ogni panda in pericolo che si rifiuta di scopare per salvare la propria specie e ogni balena o delfino che molla tutto e va a spiaggiarsi.

Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me.

For anything to endure it must be made of either granite or words.

Je?li raz przekroczysz jak?? granic?, ju? zawsze b?dziesz j? przekracza?.

The uglier the fashions, the worse places we'd have to pose to make them look good. Junkyards. Slaughterhouses. Sewage treatment plants. It's the ugly bridesmaid tactic where you only look good by comparison.

I just didn't want to be fixed. Whatever my real problems might be, I didn't want them cured. None of the little secrets inside me wanted to be found and explained away. By myths. By my childhood. By chemistry. My fear was, what would be left?

I've known fantastic writers who never finished a project. And writers who launched incredible ideas, then never fully executed them.

So, Marla, how do you like them apples?

No doubt, this is the kind of stress the constantly mutating AIDS virus must feel.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just to buy the things they really don't need.

To me, comedians are the last great storytellers because they depict their stories and create their effect with so few words. In the span of a couple minutes, stand-up comics can communicate more emotion than most novels do in hours worth of reading.

You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled.

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

He pasado la mayor parte de mi vida adulta posando a cambio de un fajo de billetes por hora, luciendo ropa y zapatos, bien peinada delante de un fotógrafo de moda que me dice lo que debo sentir.

It's fucking weird, hearing somebody's died tomorrow. Like you could still call that commuter man, right now, in Moscow, and say: "Stay home!

Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

La gente casada siempre cree que el amor es la respuesta a todo.

You can only hold a real smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

You're down man, and man, oh man, it hurts. Still it isn't anything tragic until Mom and Dad run over. Oh, you poor, brave thing. Only then do you cry.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.

Habéis pensado alguna vez que la vida es una metáfora de la televisión?

Kid…" I'd say, "Don't say I didn't warn you.