Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

With every lecture, you're forced to look again at every choice you've made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.

In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.

On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

The lucky ones are just born dead.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

It's weird to think the place where we're standing will only be a point in the sky.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.

She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around the base of a penis.

Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut.

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.

The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography.

Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.