Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Uno empieza con las pajas y llega a las orgías. Uno fuma un poco de hierba y acaba metiéndose caballo. Es esta cultura nuestra de lo más grande, lo más fuerte, lo más rápido y lo mejor. La palabra clave es progresar. En América, si tu adicción no se renueva y mejora constantemente, eres un perdedor.

Brandy says not to watch myself too close. Honey, she says, times like this, it helps to think of yourself as a sofa or a newspaper, something made by a lot of other people but not made to last forever.

What you end up doing," the mechanic says, is you spend your life searching for a father and God.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived, he says, his face outlined against the stars in the driver's window, and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables. The drop of his forehead, his brow, the slope of his nose, his eyelashes and the curve of his eyes, the plastic profile of his mouth, talking, these are all outlined in black against the stars.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression." "We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

The problem with loving so many people is that you lose so many.

Ti rivelo un piccolo segreto da donne: il motivo per cui una ragazza al primo appuntamento preferisce andare a cena, è perché così capisce com'è che lui la scoperà. Uno zoticone che si ingozza, senza mai soffermarsi su quello che mangia, be'... con uno così a letto non ci vai.

Stink for privacy, the new way to protect personal space. Intimidation by odor.

And a moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

To make a career of rescuing people is also to create a permanent class in need of rescue.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free. Survivor

Crying is right at hand when you see how everything you ever accomplished will end up as trash.

This is your last chance, honey," Brandy says, and her blood is getting all over the place. She says, "Do you love me?" It's when folks ask questions like this that you lose the spotlight.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we are just learning this fact. [...] So don't fuck with us.

z?u dac? dobitocul ?sta mic nu merita o scatoalc?. De fapt, merita tot ce i s-a întîmplat. Pentru c? s-a am?git s? cread? c? viitorul îi va aduce numai lucruri bune. Cu condiÅ£ia s? munceÅŸti din greu. S? înveÅ£i din greu. S? alergi din greu. Åži-atunci toate îÅ£i vor merge strun?, iar viaÅ£a ta va avea un sens.

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Imagine, the task force guy says, telling a passenger on arrival that a dildo kept her baggage on the East Coast. Sometimes it's even a man. It's airline policy not to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. Use the indefinite article. A dildo. Never your dildo.

Suicide Is the Ultimate Act of Consumption.

Denny, 'Çocuk doÄŸurmak için izin alman gerekmiyor. Öyleyse niye ev yapman için izin alman gereksin ki?' diye soruyor. 'Peki ya tehlikeli ve çirkin bir ev yaparsan?' diye soruyorum. Denny, "Peki ya tehlikeli ve göt gibi bir evlat yetiÅŸtirirsen?" diyor.

this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

Todos nós crescemos vendo os mesmos programas de TV. É como se tivéssemos os mesmos implantes artificiais de memória. Não nos recordamos de quase nada da nossa verdadeira infância, mas nos lembramos de tudo o que aconteceu com as mesmas famílias dos seriados de comédia. Temos os mesmos objetivos básicos. Todos nós temos os mesmos medos.