Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

I'm only confrontational with my friends.

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

We kind of deny the stages of life.

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

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.