Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

There isn't any real you in you, she says, Even your physical body, all your cells will be replaced within eight years.

Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Three weeks and I hadn't slept. Three weeks without sleep, and everything becomes an out-of-body-experience. My doctor said, Insomnia is just the symptom of something larger. Find out what's actually wrong. Listen to your body. I just wanted to sleep. I wanted little blue Amytal Sodium capsules, 200-milligram-sized. I wanted red-and-blue Tuinal bullet capsules, lipstick-red Seconal.

She says, Do you have any rubbers? I say, I thought she was barren. Sure, I'm sterile, she says, but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease. I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live a lot longer. Fertility says, That's how I feel about my giant credit card debt. So we have sex. If you could call it that.

Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

The worst strat­egy I could pur­sue is self-?im­prove­ment.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one.

Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.

Whatever the blessing, the talent, or technology, we can still find some way to fuck it up.

Where we're at right here is the beginning of the end.

Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

How she looks is watered-down. How she looks is disappearing. How she looks is erased. Don't stress, she says. This is just me not wearing any makeup.

Give me release. I'm tired of this world of appearances. Pigs that only look fat. Families that look happy. Give me deliverance. From what only looks like generosity. What only looks like love. Flash.

I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive let them eat cake type of chauvinism.

Sahip olduÄŸun her ÅŸey, bir gün kaybedeceÄŸin ÅŸeylerden sadece bir tanesidir.

We fight wars. We fight for peace. We fight hunger. We love to fight. We fight and fight and fight, with our guns or mouths or money. And the planet is never one lick better than it was before us.

The truth is you can be or­phaned again and again and again. The truth is you will be. And the se­cret is, this will hurt less and less each time un­til you can't feel a thing.

They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment.

You have a class of young men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Cyanide is natural. So is arsenic.