Quotes About Chuck Palahniuk

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie.

We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people." -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist.

We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.

Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.

The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

The worst strat­egy I could pur­sue is self-?im­prove­ment.

Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

Do you believe in an afterlife? Do your personal beliefs include a life after death?—no matter how they phrase their snotty test, do the following. Simply look them in the eye, snort derisively, and retort, "Frankly, only a provincial ignoramus would even believe in death.