Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

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

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.

Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

We should forgive God...

I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying "We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything." And I'm like, "Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did."

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

"I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again." p76

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

"Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you." p205

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

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