Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

Your heart is my piñata.

Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

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

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me. Who I was before the accident is just a story now. Everything before now, before now, before now, is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am. What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.