Chuck Palahniuk

“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.”

“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”

“some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.”

“Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.”

“These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.”

“I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.”

“When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.”

“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.”

“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

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

“I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.”

“For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.”

“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”

“You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.”

“It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.”

“When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.”

“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”

“He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.”