Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it.

There will always be an underground.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

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

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

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.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

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

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

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

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

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

I have a lot of money.

The answer is there is no answer.