Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

Personne ne veut reconnaître que nous sommes des drogués de musique. Ce n'est tout bonnement pas possible. Personne n'est drogué de musique, de télévision, de radio. Simplement, il nous en faut plus et plus, nous en avons besoin, plus de chaines, un écran plus grand, plus de volume. Nous ne supportons pas de nous en passer, mais, non personne n'est drogué. Nous pourrions l'éteindre dès que nous le voudrions.

Lo mejor que nos podría ocurrir, es que nos despidieran. De esa forma dejaríamos de intentar ir tirando y haríamos algo de provecho con nuestras vidas.

Se pueden repetir los mismos milagros una y otra vez mientras nadie recuerde la última vez

Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the government rots.

I look like shit, dead. I look like dead shit.

La gente, cuando cree que te estás muriendo, te presta toda su atención.

Sen de en az bir araba kadar ürünsün. Bir ürünün, ürününün, ürünü. Arabalar? dizayn eden adamlar da birer ürün. Senin ailen bir ürün. Onlar?n ailesi de birer üründü. ÖÄŸretmenlerin, ürün. Kilisedeki papaz, baÅŸka bir ürün.

there's worse ways to be dead than dying.

Towles burn. Bathroom inferno! Chanel No. 5, it burns. Oil paintings of racehorses and dead pheasants burn. The reproduction Oriental carpets burn. Evie's bad dried flower arrangements, they're these little tabletop infernos. Too cute! Evie's Katty Kathy doll, it melts, then it burns. Evie's collection of big carnival stuffed animals—Cootie, Poochie, Pam-Pam, Mr. Bunnits, Choochie, Poo Poo and Ringer—it's fun-fur holocaust. Too sweet. Too precious.

Give me patience. Flash. Give me control. Flash.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

The mentalis, the corrugator, all those little muscles of the face, those are the first things you learn in art school anatomy. After that, you can tell a fake smile because the risorius and platysma muscles pull the lower lip down and out, squaring it and exposing the lower teeth. Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son.

Santa Claus is just a story, says Seth. He's just the opening band to God. There is no Santa Claus.

Jump to one time, late one night, driving between Nowhere, Wyoming, and WhoKnowsWhere, Montana, when Seth says how your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. "Then puberty makes you Satan," he says, "just because you want something better." J

Most guys are at fight club because of something they're too scared to fight. After a few fights, you're afraid a lot less.

Evie says, "It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed." I write: i know girls who say that about their dildos.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

Every place is the same place in the dark.

I am John's raging bile duct.

His name is Robert Paulson and he is forty-eight years old. His name is Robert Paulson, and Robert Paulson will be forty-eight years old, forever.

Si no sabes lo que quieres —continuó el porte­ro—, terminas teniendo un montón de cosas que no necesitas.