Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I don't want to die without any scars.

All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

"When you think about it from a native plant perspective," Oyster says."Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist."

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

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.

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

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

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.

The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

The whole idea of men creating perfect robot women for their own pleasure, it happens every day. The most "beautiful" women you see in public, none of them are for real. They're just men perpetuating their perverted stereotypes of women. Just the oldest story in the world. There's a penis on every page of Cosmopolitan magazine if you know where to look.

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