Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Your every emotion goes right over the top with a big audience. It's either laughter or tears, with no in-between. Those tigers in zoos, they must have a big opera all the time.

Peo­ple used what they called a tele­phone be­cause they hat­ed be­ing close to­geth­er and they were too scared of be­ing alone.

And married peolpe always think love is the answer.

Based on decades of observation, I propose that sudden high levels of praise always trigger an equal amount of inner self-loathing.

Adam said the other blessing you have to give up in the outside world is darkness. You can close your eyes, and sit in a cupboard, but that's not the same thing. The darkness at night in the church district colony is complete. The stars are thick above us in this kind of darkness. You can see how the moon is rough with mountain ranges and etched with rivers and smoothed with oceans. On a night without the moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.

The people who really, actually loved us, they'd beg us to go. To fulfill our dreams. Practice our craft. And they would love us when we all came back.

As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together.

Stick and stones may break your bones and words can kill you too

Our real discoveries come from chaos. From going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther your run, the more God wants you back.

Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take—what you do or say or how you choose to appear—is automatically right the moment you act.

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

Artificial overstimulation seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available.

You have to talk, otherwise your head turns into a cemetery.

Not that I'm crazy or any­thing, I just want some proof that death isn't the end.

We, each of us, can take control of the world.

If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

Time legitimizes the outrageous.

A year could pass be­tween her ask­ing a ques­tion and my an­swer.

This is all my identification, my birth certificate, my everything. You can be Shannon McFarland from now on. My career. The ninety-degree attention. It's yours. All of it. Everything. I hope it's enough for you. It's everything I have left.

Your name told you just how your life would go.

In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song You're the One That I Want from the musical Grease three times in a single day - seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or whatever - it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset.

The easy thing to do was give her the ben­efit of the doubt.

In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.