Chuck Palahniuk quotes

“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“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.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“What we don't understand we can make mean anything.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The answer is there is no answer.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.”

— Chuck Palahniuk