Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

The answer is there is no answer.

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

Masochism is a valuable job skill.

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

I have a lot of money.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.