Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

Getting fired,' Tyler says, 'is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.

Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things. Only end them.

I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

I would pay snakes to bite her.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.

Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?

Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go

Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.