Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Write what you'd like to read.

Wie kommuniziert man am besten das Gefühl, tot zu sein … Ja, ich kenne das Wort kommunizieren. Ich bin tot, nicht geistesgestört.

Everyone, he knew for a fact, was populated by billions of microbes, and not simply the flora in their digestive tracts. People played host to mites and viruses that all wanted to reproduce and continue life elsewhere. They jumped ship with every handshake. It was folly to imagine we were anything more than vessels, carting around our bossy passengers. We were nothing.

Bestenfalls ein Bewacher. Schlimmstenfalls ein Voyeur.

Ich hatte die ganze Zeit gedacht, die beiden ziehen über meinen Großvater her, aber dann wurde mir klar, die meinten mich. Das heißt, natürlich meinten sie irgendeinen verrückten Killer, aber das war immer noch ich, die ich da in Häschenpantoffeln und Pelzmantel saß.

The paradox: is God a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semetic? Or is God testing to see if I am?

Arson. Assault. Mischief and Misinformation.

In un mondo in cui le promesse non hanno valore. In cui giurare non significa niente. In cui si promette solo per poi non mantenere, non sarebbe male veder rinascere il potere della parola.

In this maze of antiques, she says, are the ghosts of everyone who has ever owned this furniture. Everyone rich and successful enough to prove it. All of their talent and intelligence and beauty outlived by decorative junk. All the success and accomplishments this furniture was supposed to represent, it's all vanished.

Don't pretend for a moment that writing as a different person is evading reality. If anything it allows you a greater freedom to explore parts of yourself you wouldn't dare consciously examine.

Das Sterben erscheint uns als die größte Schwäche überhaupt, schlimmer als Alkoholismus oder Heroinsucht, und in einer Welt, wo man der Faulheit bezichtigt wird, nur weil man sich nicht die Beine rasiert, gilt das Totsein als der ultimative Charakterfehler. Als ob man vor dem Leben weggelaufen wäre – sich einfach nicht genug Mühe gegeben, sein Potential nicht voll ausgeschöpft hätte. Du Drückeberger!

Questo è il mio pesciolino numero 641 in una vita costellata di pesciolini rossi. I miei genitori mi comprarono il primo per insegnarmi cosa significasse amare e prendersi cura di una creatura vivente del Signore. Seicentoquaranta pesci dopo, l'unica cosa che ho imparato è che tutto quello che ami morirà.

In der Mitte des Romans angelangt kam ich zu dem Schluss, dass das, was zwei Leute einander nicht sagen, ein stärkeres Band zwischen ihnen schmiedet als Aufrichtigkeit.

Backed by the hellish glare of flames, the doctor proclaimed, "Men in general need to accept their diminished status in the world." Against a backdrop of smoke and shouting, she added, "The impending war, for example, will be an excellent opportunity for them to earn the acclaim they crave.

Don't even get me started on James Baldwin!" Esteban wailed. "The man . . . the prophet . . . the poet laureate who wrote the liturgy of his entire race, and his people won't celebrate his queer spirit!

Das Einzige, was die Gegenwart genießbar macht, ist die Tatsache, dass die Vergangenheit manchmal eine Folter war.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

Wie friedlich ist eine Welt, wo jeder Anstoß erregt und niemand Anstoß nimmt.

You are your own favorite hobby. You're an expert on you.

if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you... You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

No medium is fragile if it carries the truth.

If you lose your nerve before you hit the bottom," Tyler says, you'll never really succeed.

Young people want mirrors. Older people want art. If I couldn't see myself, my world, in Cheever or Gatsby, I rejected them.

Ich mag zwar Ich sein, aber das könnte mir nun wirklich nicht passieren, DU zu sein.