Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950's. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

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.

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.

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.

Sex pretty much cures everything.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

I'm breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions, because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?

Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.

You can't fool people into loving you.

Tyler lies back and asks, If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing? I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

If you're going to read this, don't bother.