Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

The answer is there is no answer.

If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander

Life is short, death is forever

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.

Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand.

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?

We just had a near-life experience!

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.