Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

With a gun barrel pressed between you're teeth, you speak only in vowels.

By the middle of the novel I decided that what two people don't say to each other forges a stronger bond than honest.

Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

Marla's heart looked the way my face was. The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.

As if she ought to know better than to scream and bleed in public.

What I do know is I've got a brain filled with jokes I can't forget - like a tumor the size of a grapefruit inside of my skull. And I know that eventually even dog shit turns white and stops stinking, but I have this permanent head filled with crap I've been trained my whole life to think is funny.

That might be the best any generation could achieve: to pioneer its own brand of corruption.

We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

What you have to know is that Marla is still alive. 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.

Watching hours of television seemed to help, but it took brainpower to be so dumb.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

La repetición es la madre de todos los talentos.

The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.

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

I'm trapped here, in a nosedive, in my life, in the cockpit of a jetliner with the flat yellow of the Australian outback coming up fast. And there's so many things I want to change but can't. It's all done. It's all just a sotry now. Her'es the life and death of Tender Branson, and I can just walk away from it. And the sky is blue and righteous in every direction. The sun is total and burning and just right there, and today is a beautiful day.

If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?

But someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world," the space monkey tells the mirror. I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

At home, you'll sometimes wake up in your dark bed with the terror you've fallen asleep in the booth and missed a changeover.

And the moment she says hello, I wouldn't hang up. I'd say, 'Hi. What's happening? Tell me every little thing.

It's music as wallpaper, utilitarian, music as Prozac or Xanax to control how you feel. Music as aerosol room freshener.

Why are you alone? I mean, we are all alone. Aloneness is... that´s life. It´s the quality of our aloneness that matters.

Solitude is a natural place for a writer to be.

Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.