Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Don't ask me when be­cause I don't re­mem­ber, but some­where along the way I keep for­get­ting to com­mit sui­cide.

You're training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay. Two's company. Drinking is fun. If there's a bottle, even if your glass isn't empty, a drunk, he'll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.

Ev­ery­thing you re­mem­ber is wrong.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

It's eerie, but what's happening is the folks are staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor, on and on, completely trapped in a reality loop that never ends.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

What we call chaos is just pat­terns we haven't rec­og­nized. What we call ran­dom is just pat­terns we can't de­ci­pher. What we can't un­der­stand we call non­sense. What we can't read we call gib­ber­ish.

Nunca sabes cuan fuerte eres hasta que ser fuerte es la única elección que tienes. Y cuando esto sucede, eres intocable.

Suicide is very contagious.

Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

Birds ate my face.

You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

When you die, trust me, the most difficult person to leave behind is yourself.

Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done...

The martyrdom of me.

Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now? she says.

The future had a way of breaking your heart if you expected too much.

A house full of condiments and no real food. If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.