Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
This only looks like love.

"The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors." p144

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job.

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

Power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. So just relax, Helen Boyle told me, and just enjoy the ride. She said, "Even absolute corruption has its perks.

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

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.

Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.

"Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise," he says, "you'll always be controlled by the world."

If the living are haunted by the dead. Then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes."

"The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.

"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

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