Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

A salacious lie will always trump a noble truth.

Because I can't save anybody; not as a doctor, not as a son. And because I can't save anybody, I can't save myself.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Ig­nore how it feels when the on­ly re­al tal­ent you have is for hid­ing the truth.

There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

Then you're trapped on your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted.

I am helpless. I am stupid, and all I do is want and need things. My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it Entourage. This is how bad your life can get.

I embrace my own festering diseased corruption

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.

You are the all-singing all-dancing crap of the world

In Hell, you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.

Clothing is dishonesty in its purest form.

Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

You had a near life experience.

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first.