Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.

I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.