Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

Kill me if I ever look that Bad . . . Dude, what are you saying? . . . On the TV? That is you, dude. From like five years ago.

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

We see what we want. We see how we want. We only see ourselves.

It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words.

I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

We love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit that.

When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak

This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.

no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.

If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.