Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

The problem with proximity friends is, they move away. They quit or get fired.

I saw my blood and snot and teeth splashed all over the dashboard the moment after the accident, but hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

The first step to eternal life is You have to die!!

And I used to be such a nice person.

People in love -with nurturing, attentive non-movie-star parents- they would never invent gravity. Nothing except deep misery leads to real success.

It turns out, my suitcase was vibrating on departure from Dulles, according to the security task force guy, so the police took it off the flight. Everything was in that bag. My contact lens stuff. One red tie with blue strips. One blue tie with red stripes. These are regimental stripes, not club tie stripes. And one solid red tie.

Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career

And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.

It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, that you're free to do anything." What I'm feeling

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer

Conditions change and we mutate.

No man has to be a rocket surgeon to recognize love.

Hay un montón de cosas que deseamos ignorar sobre la gente que queremos.

everything wooden swells and shrinks, and the nails in everything wooden, the floors and baseboards and window casings, the nails inch out and rust. Everywhere there are rusted nails to step on or snag your elbow on, and there's only one bathroom for the seven

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

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with he frame than with the artwork itself.

If you've never been in a fight, you wonder. About getting hurt, about what you're capable of doing against another man.

Give me pity. Flash. Give me another chance. Flash.

The liberator who destroys my property," Tyler said, is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

Give me passion. Flash. Give me joy. Flash. Give me youth and energy and innocence and beauty. Flash.

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Give me wonder, baby. Flash. Give me amazement. Flash.

Mark my words: Being dead isn't all sitting around in remorseful reflection and bitter self-recrimination. Death, like life, is what you make of it.

God should be able to wink that good. Like somebody taking your picture. Give me joy. Give me fun. Give me love. Flash.