Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Oxygen makes you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you're taking giant panicked breaths. Suddenly you become euphoric, docile. You accept your fate.

Kid's got this look like he's just seen the wrong person naked riding a bicycle from behind.

The candelabras.

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.

Çarp?ima partisi, depresyonunuzu elektroÅŸokla tedavi etmek gibi deÄŸil midir?

Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage," Adam says. "You'll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite the apple.

Åžimdiden önce, ÅŸimdiden önce, ÅŸimdiden önceki her ÅŸey yan?mda ta??y?p durduÄŸum bir hikayeden ibaret. San?r?m bu durum dünyadaki herkes için geçerli. Benim yeni bir hikayeye ihtiyac?m var.

Okay! You are now firing a gun at your imaginary friend, next to 40,000 POUNDS OF NITROGLYCERINE!

Her legs are crossed at the knee and ankle.

Woman are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

It's not a big deal [...]. We do it every day. Kill the unborn to save the elderly. [...] every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

My job," Mitzi said, "is to make everyone in the whole world scream at the exact same time.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

From his research he knew that child traffickers walk amongst us. They stand beside us at the bank. They sit next to us in restaurants. Foster had scarcely had to scratch the surface of the web before such predators had glommed onto him, sending their corruption and trying to rope him into their sickening world.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

Your characters have arms and legs and faces. Use them. Use attribution. Control the delivery of dialogue. Support it with actions, or negate it with actions.

It was beautiful. We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them.

Stabbing, Mitzi could write a book about. For example, why some killers kept stabbing for so long. Only the first thrust is intended to inflict pain. The subsequent twenty, thirty, forty stab wounds are to resolve the suffering.

agent, the people out there looking for a leader, they want vibrant. They want massive. They want dynamic. Nobody wants a little skinny god. They want a thirty-inch drop between your chest and waist sizes. Big pecs. Long legs. Cleft chin. Big calves. They want more than human. They want larger than life size. Nobody wants just anatomically correct. People want anatomical enhancement. Surgically augmented. New and improved. Silicone-implanted. Collagen-injected.

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

KilitlenmemiÅŸ kap?lar?n ard?nda oturan bu insanlar, daha büyük bir evin, sorunlar? çözmeyeceÄŸini çok iyi bilirler.. Daha iyi bir eÅŸ, daha çok para ve daha gergin bir cildin de. Sahip olaca??n her ÅŸey; bir gün kaybedeceÄŸin ÅŸeylerden yaln?zca biridir..

You can smell diesel and deep-fried food and vomit and powdered sugar. These days, this is what passes for fun.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better of ourselves

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