54 Quotes By Chuck Palahniuk


Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
Chuck Palahniuk on age

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck Palahniuk on alone

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
Chuck Palahniuk on alone

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
Chuck Palahniuk on alone

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
Chuck Palahniuk on best

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
Chuck Palahniuk on best

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
Chuck Palahniuk on best

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Chuck Palahniuk on best

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Chuck Palahniuk on change

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 on change

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
Chuck Palahniuk on change

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 on death

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
Chuck Palahniuk on death

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Chuck Palahniuk on education

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
Chuck Palahniuk on freedom

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
Chuck Palahniuk on funny

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
Chuck Palahniuk on future

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
Chuck Palahniuk on future

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk on god

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
Chuck Palahniuk on god