Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play The Blue Danube Waltz, get the hell out. Don't think. Run.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

the world is the cradle and your trap.

How can you possibly believe he really loves you?" Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier's hand."You have no choice," Mr. Whittier tells her. "If you need to be loved.

Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for a father and God. What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we've grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don't start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze in time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Love and life belongs to great risk.

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. 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.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Just for the record, waking up on drugs with your pubic hair shaved and something plastic stuck in your vagina doesn't necessarily make you a real artist.

Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.

This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.

Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand.

Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.