Chuck Palahniuk

“What if reality is nothing but some disease?”

“The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.”

“Since boyhood, fury had become his father. His older brother. His only protector. Fury gave him strength and courage and spurred him to always move forward despite always getting things wrong and always failing and no mentor there to help him or teach him and everyone always laughing. Anger delivered him from catastrophe. Rage kept him from going under. It had come to be his greatest asset and only strategy.”

“You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.”

“My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.”

“I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.”

“It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.”

“they should let some people into the library by prescription only”

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

“There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.”

“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”

“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.”

“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”

“Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.”

“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.”

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”

“If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.”

“I think America is just so in love with conflict.”

“If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.”

“Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.”