Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

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.

Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

Here's Big Brother, singing and dancing, force-feeding you, so your mind never goes hungry enough to think.

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

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

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

Stink for privacy, the new way to protect personal space. Intimidation by odor.

The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.

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

"It's not a matter of right and wrong," Mr. Whittier would say. Really, there is no wrong. Not in our minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take--what you do or say or how you choose to appear--is automatically right the moment you act.

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.