Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

Ev­ery phone call I get fills me with joy and ter­ror since this could be the case­work­er or the killer.

I'm the dick that killed Cassie Lynn Wright.

Right now, me get­ting killed would be redun­dant.

My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day.

The closest thing that comes to how the day felt is when you wipe back to front. You're on the toilet. You're not thinking, and you smear shit on the back of your hanging-down wrinkled ball skin. The more you try to wipe it clean, the skin stretches and the mess keeps getting bigger. The thin layer of shit spreads into the hair and down your thighs. That's how a day like this, how it feels to keep secret.

We were kept busy learn­ing. We had a mil­lion facts to re­mem­ber.

I am trash," Tyler said. I am trash and shit and crazy to you and this whole fucking world," Tyler said to the union president. You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

That's the big letdown you'll notice about filming a movie: No underline music. No mood music.

It's a fate worse than death to spend eternity in harness, serving as Lilly Hellman's zombie, brought back to life at dinner parties.

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

Echo Lawrence(Party Crasher): If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favourite saying was 'The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.' Shot Dunyun(Party Crasher): That's bullshit. Rant's favourite saying was 'Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

Little voice gives us the facts. Big voice gives us the meaning—or at least a character's subjective interpretation of the events.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you. All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog. People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden.

It was just one more pre­dictable mass sui­cide in a world filled with splin­ter groups that limp along un­til they're con­front­ed.

The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term depopulate means?

People don't practice their smiles nearly enough, so when they most need to look happy they're not fooling anyone.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say. It's nothing anymore to have a beautiful stock body. You see those cars that are completely stock cherry, right out of a dealer's showroom in 1955, I always think, what a waste.

nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Peo­ple are look­ing for how to put ev­ery­thing to­geth­er. They need a uni­fied field the­ory that com­bines glam­our and ho­li­ness, fash­ion and spir­itu­al­ity. Peo­ple need to rec­on­cile be­ing good and be­ing good-?look­ing.

One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march upon us, wailing, and the purest of the children of God would have to deliver themselves unto the Lord by their own hand. The Deliverance.

Edition to edition, the symptoms change. Sane people are insane by a new standard. People who used to be called insane are the picture of perfect mental health.