Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

If there's a trick to doing a job you hate... Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.

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

A journalist has a right... ...and a duty, to destroy the golden calves he helps create.

Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

Their teeth white, as if they never used teeth for anything except to smile.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.