Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Who you are from moment to moment is just a story.

The music and laughter eat away at your thoughts.

How could you ever bring yourself to love so deeply if you truly knew how brief a lifetime can be?

People accepted the new leaders because people wanted leaders and the former were dead.

things you used to own, now they own you.

Cadavez que el avión se ladeaba en exceso al despegar o al aterrizar, rezaba para que nos estrellásemos.

Por eso yo apreciaba tanto los grupos de apoyo, porque la gente, cuando cree que te estás muriendo, te presta toda su atención.

What caught Jamal's eye was a signed sepia-tone photograph of Emma Goldman mounted on a small bejeweled easel.

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

There's a famous quote regarding Polanski. Perhaps Jack Nicholson said it, perhaps someone else, but it goes, "Polanski is the five-foot Pole I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole." So, yes, the world seems to despise him. I, however, love his work. It's so much funnier and well-constructed than the pompous stuff of Kubrick. Polanski balances between camp and horror in much the same way Billy Wilder did.

Every apostle or disciple, Mrs. Clark says, as much as they're running to follow their savior - they're running just as hard to escape something else.

What do you get yourself into every weekend?" I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say. It's nothing anymore to have a beautiful stock body. You see those cars that are completely stock cherry, right out of a dealer's showroom in 1955, I always think, what a waste.

No sabía bien que era la vida porque no sabía con que contrastarla.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

So never dictate meaning to your reader. If need be, misdirect him. But always allow him to realize the truth before you state it outright. Trust your readers' intelligence and intuition, and they will return the favor.

There's worse ways to be dead than dying.

We're all such products

the greatest proof of love's power is that it couldn't be reduced to words.

But we forget so much when we're born he says. Being born, it's as if you go inside a building. You lock yourself inside a building with no windows to see out. And after you're inside any building long enough, you forget how the outside looked. Without a mirror, you'd forget your own face.

DoÄŸumunuz, hayat?n?z boyunca düzeltmeye çal??aca??n?z bir hatad?r.

Esto era la libertad. La libertad consistía en perder toda esperanza.

Relax, Brandy says, Whatever you're thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they're doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is cooperative effort.

Mit einem Schwert in deinem Herzen sterben.

The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possessions. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.