Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

A book is as private and consensual as sex.

This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.

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.

As a fundraiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.'

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight.

The camera obscura.

Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

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.

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.