Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. 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.

Kids, she says. When they're little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it's just the opposite. After that, you're either a liar or a fool or a villain.

The first rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club.

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.