Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

The future is just wasted on some people.

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don't recognize as real.

I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..

When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist.