Chuck Palahniuk
Found 27 thoughts of Chuck Palahniuk
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.
Chuck Palahniuk
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
Chuck Palahniuk
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk
On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Chuck Palahniuk
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Chuck Palahniuk
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
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?
Chuck Palahniuk
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Chuck Palahniuk
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Chuck Palahniuk
If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
Chuck Palahniuk
This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
Chuck Palahniuk
With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels.
Chuck Palahniuk
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Chuck Palahniuk
If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
Chuck Palahniuk
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Chuck Palahniuk
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
Chuck Palahniuk
