Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

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

Your heart is my piñata.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

Some stories, Mr.Whitter would say, you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up. p288

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

This culling poem is a blessing. Why do you think it was created in the first place? It will save millions of people from the slow terrible death we're headed for from disease, from famine, drought, from solar radiation, from war, from all the places we're headed.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

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

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.