Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

What I am is a recall campaign coordinator, I tell the single-serving friend sitting next to me, but I'm working toward a career as a dishwasher.

She's being such an overreaction.

Los placeres de la viudedad solo duran hasta que te vuelves a casar.

AÄŸz?mdan ç?kan Tyler'?n sözleri. Halbuki melek gibi adamd?m ben.

love is a mission a man goes on every day. A mission a man never completes until death.

C'erano così tante leggi e, poco ma sicuro, almeno un miliardo di modi in cui le si poteva infrangere.

She's not Italian in any way you'd notice. No garlic smell or big armpit hair. She came here to attend medical school. Frigging medical school. In Iowa. The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here. The

Già sono italiano, non posso essere anche cattolico! E' troppo!

So direct and misdirect your reader, but don't tell her the meaning of anything. Not until she gets it wrong in her head.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character... Would you slow down? Or speed up?

Non sai mai quanto sei forte, finché essere forte è l'unica scelta che hai.

De repente, hasta la muerte y los que están muriendo bajan desfilando con flores de plástico como en el vídeo de algo que no ocurrió.

perchè la realtà non arriva mai dove può spingersi l'immaginazione. Nessuna donna è davvero bella come lo è nella tua testa. Niente è eccitante quanto la tua fantasia.

Todas las drogas cosméticas, dijo, todos los estabilizadores del ánimo y antidepresivos, solamente tratan los síntomas de los grandes problemas. Todas las adicciones, le contó, no eran más que formas de tratar un mismo problema. Las drogas, el exceso de comida, el alcohol o el sexo, todo era una simple forma de encontrar la paz. De escapar de lo que conocemos. De nuestra educación. Eran nuestro mordisco a la manzana.

At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper," Marla says. The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper." I

Tal vez la autosuperación no se la respuesta. [...] Tal vez la autodestrucción sea la respuesta.

Withered funeral flowers hanging from the bronze vase attached to each crypt, dripping stinky water on the marble floor and furry with mold, it's too easy to imagine what's happening to the beloved sealed inside.

Non lo so dice Denny. Fare un bambino non è come prendere un cane. Cioè, i bambini durano un sacco.

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

Solo después del desastre podemos resucitar.

Las mismas leyes que nos mantienen a salvo nos condenan al aburrimiento. Sin acceso al caos verdadero, nunca lograremos la paz verdadera.

To call this a social experiment was incorrect. It would never be allowed to fail.

Somos los hijos medianos de la historia, educados por la televisión para creer que un día seremos millonarios y estrellas de cine y estrellas de rock, pero no es así.

the first step to eternal live is you have to die.