Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.

your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

The damaged loves the damaged.

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

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.