Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.