Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

In truth, the degree of anyone's succes depends on how often they can say the word 'yes' and hear the word 'no.' Those many times you are thwarted yet persevere.

Wherever we end up, I just won't go back to normal.

How can I not laugh? I'm already dead.

She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer. Madonna versus whore. An option not mired in the lingering detritus of some Victorian-era dream.

As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happen

Oh, I wish I could make my poor heart just burst.

At the store, they have one-hundred-percent-recycled toilet paper, Marla says. The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.

She could see it so clear. She could picture every room, inside every house. And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (Narrator)

It sounds as if you'd like to be God.

Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life.

Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.'

They want me to account for my next ten years. Their way, everything in your life turns into an item on a list. Something to accomplish. You get to see how your life looks flattened out. The shortest distance between two points is a timeline, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Most ev­ery­thing else I know is from the mess­es these peo­ple leave be­hind.

An ancient truism had once decreed, Self improvement is masturbation..

Call me the voice of ex­pe­ri­ence.

Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end

If you lose your nerve before you hit the bottom, Tyler says, you never really succeed.

I am Joe's Complete Lack of Surprise.

Brandy says, The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

Everything sounds so much better when it comes out of a man's mouth

Here's one night when I control the chaos. I participate with the doom I can't control. I'm dancing with the inevitable, and I survive....My regular little dress rehearsal...the day I finally meet Death, the two of us will be old, long-lost friends. Me and Death, separated at birth.

It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything.