Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Which is worse: Hell or nothing?

She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.

That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you'd never need more. That if enough people loved you, you'd stop needing love.

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.