3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk 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.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk 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.
3 December 2020 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?
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk I believe in something. But I don’t believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that’s usually how you end up crying?
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk I really love idiot, enlightened characters – these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk 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.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk 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.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake… This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk 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.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk I think in a way, you’re doomed, once you can envision something. You’re sort of doomed to make it happen. I’ve found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that’s usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk I try to forget about the expectation that’s out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I’m not trying to please them. I’ve spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Maybe it’s our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk I’m always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
