Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

Believe in me and die forever.

The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

The girl who lives in 8G used to be a lovely charming girl, but the girl is a monster bitch monster. The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

Please know that there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because, I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings but it will always heal even if you don't want it to, it keeps going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It's up to you to find them.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked...

Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.

The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.