Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

You decide your own level of involvement.

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit.

If there's any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.

Losing all hope was freedom.

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

This isn't really death,' Tyler says. 'We'll be legend. We won't grow old.' I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you're thinking of vampires.

You can guess this is how men have been handling Eva's hostility for her whole life. Just distract her. Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

Even if you tell yourself Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot. Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong... you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.