Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel's face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful . . . Tyler told me later that he'd never seen me destroy something so completely.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born?

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore.

Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

Love is a skill you learn.

Which is worse, Hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.

Listen up. Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.' Sometimes Rant said, 'You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.' If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: 'The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

No shit, there's worse ways to be dead than dying.

A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a Book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.

If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex that adolescents first rebel. And if you never have sex, you never grow beyond everything else your parents taught you. If you never break the rule against sex, you won't break any other rule.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

A woman eats to feed her pussy. Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification.

I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.