Chuck Palahniuk quotes

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

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.

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

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

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

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

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

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.

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.

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

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.

My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.