“ When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in ou… Chuck Palahniuk
“ When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge. Chuck Palahniuk
“ Whatever happened in the world was a decree from God. A task to be completed. Any crying or joy just got in the way of being useful. Any emotion was decadent. Anticipation or regret was a silly extra.… Chuck Palahniuk
“ What they don't teach you in art school is never, ever to tell people you wanted to be an artist. Just so you know, for the rest of your life, people will torture you by saying how you used to love to… Chuck Palahniuk
“ What stops you here is what stops your entire life.The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some e… Chuck Palahniuk
“ We wanted to blast the world free of history.... picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests… Chuck Palahniuk
“ We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You'r… Chuck Palahniuk
“ We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and… Chuck Palahniuk
“ We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see what it's going to show us when we get home. Chuck Palahniuk
“ Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breast… Chuck Palahniuk
“ Typhoid Mary or Ted Bundy or Sharon Tate. History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses. Chuck Palahniuk
“ Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. Chuck Palahniuk
“ To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Th… Chuck Palahniuk
“ This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Chuck Palahniuk
“ There are a lot of good reasons to live, I tell her, and hope she won't ask for a list. Chuck Palahniuk
“ Then the flash of the strobe. Give me sympathy. Flash. Give me brutal honesty. Flash. Chuck Palahniuk
