“ Then since the autopilot will have it trimmed out to fly in a straight line, the glider will begin what the pilot calls a controlled descent. That kind of a descent, I tell him, would be nice for a ch… Chuck Palahniuk
“ Then all you can do is get lost in the tiny details of every day doing the same tasks over and over. Chuck Palahniuk
“ Then I thought, a sex change, she says, a sexual reassignment surgery [...] It was just the biggest mistake I could make. The biggest challenge I could give myself. She says, You have to jump into dis… Chuck Palahniuk
“ The whole island was exactly what a kid growing up in some trailer park--say some dump like Tecumseh Lake, Georgia--would dream about. This kid would turn out all the lights in the trailer while her m… Chuck Palahniuk
“ The truth is, being ugly isn't the thrill you'd think, but it can be an oportunity for something better than I ever imagined.The truth is I'm sorry. Chuck Palahniuk
“ The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is you will be. Chuck Palahniuk
“ The sun's outside the bathroom window, trying to show us we're all being stupid. All you have to do is look around. Chuck Palahniuk
“ The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list. Chuck Palahniuk
“ The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. Chuck Palahniuk
“ The problem with being talented and gifted is sometimes you get too smart. My uncle Henry says the importance of eating a good breakfast is because your brain is still growing. But nobody talks about… Chuck Palahniuk
“ The police think maybe it was the gas. Maybe the pilot light on the stove went out or a burner was left on, leaking gas, and the gas rose to the ceiling, and the gas filled the condo from ceiling to f… Chuck Palahniuk
“ The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty. Chuck Palahniuk
“ The most I can ever do is write things down. To remember them. The details. To honor them in some way. Chuck Palahniuk
“ The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back. Chuck Palahniuk
“ The goal was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history. We, each of us, can take control of the world. Chuck Palahniuk
“ The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'Rant meant that no… Chuck Palahniuk
“ The bad news is we don't have any control.The good news is we can't make any mistakes. Chuck Palahniuk
“ That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version. Chuck Palahniuk
“ That old saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. And it does work both ways. Chuck Palahniuk
