“ My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slo… Chuck Palahniuk
“ We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. Chuck Palahniuk
“ It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. Chuck Palahniuk
“ If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love. Chuck Palahniuk
“ I knew this would happen, Marla says. You're such a flake. You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap. Chuck Palahniuk
“ What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, bu… Chuck Palahniuk
“ They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative… Chuck Palahniuk
“ No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart… Chuck Palahniuk
“ Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. Chuck Palahniuk
“ The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while th… Chuck Palahniuk
“ The stamp is something left over from an inpatient hospital program. In some other program RELEASED used to mean a client was set free. Now it means a client is dead. Nobody wanted to special-order a… Chuck Palahniuk
“ We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language. Chuck Palahniuk
“ People in France have a phrase: Spirit of the Stairway. In French: Esprit de l'escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer, but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you… Chuck Palahniuk
