Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and k...

You talked about Nietzsche and his tertiary syphilis. Mozart and his uremia. Paul Klee and the scleroderma that shrank his joints and muscles to death. Frida Kahlo and the spina bifida that covered he...

You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with a working class of slaves. Peons to haul the garbage so the upper crust...

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anyt...

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. We can’t give up our concept of who we were. All those adults playing archaeologist at yard sales, looking for childhood...

You probably don't want to date a rapist, not right off. Nobody's that desperate.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

You never know the complicated deals two people negotiate in order to stay married beyond the first ten minutes.

You must be kidding. She says, Having the power of life and death isn't enough. Youmust wonder what other poems are in that book.Hitting me as fast as a hiccup, me resting my weight on my good foot, j...

You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.

You just don’t expect to meet dead people.

You have a class of young men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs th...

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

You don’t have to con­trol ev­ery­thing, she says. You can’t con­trol ev­ery­thing.

You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

You count the facts and it's so depressing.I can only eat baby food.My best friend screwed my fiancé.My fiancé almost stabbed me to death.I've set fire to a house and been pointing a rifle at innocent...

You could choke on the silence.

You can tell peo­ple the truth, but they’ll nev­er be­lieve you un­til the event. Un­til it’s too late. In the mean­time, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trou­ble.