You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake… This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time. – Chuck Palahniuk
I try to forget about the expectation thats out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that Im not trying to please them. Ive spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. – Chuck Palahniuk
Im 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. – Chuck Palahniuk
I think in a way, youre doomed, once you can envision something. Youre sort of doomed to make it happen. Ive found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, thats usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart. – 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. Thats the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. – Chuck Palahniuk
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur thats much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. – Chuck Palahniuk
I believe in something. But I dont 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. – Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe its our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. – Chuck Palahniuk
My goal is more to be remembered. Theyll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. – Chuck Palahniuk
Its funny how you never think about the women youve had. Its always the ones who get away that you cant forget. – Chuck Palahniuk
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… its your responsibility to love it, or change it. – Chuck Palahniuk
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because its the only way they can get anything really finished. – Chuck Palahniuk
Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when Im doing mindless manual labor or exercise. Im not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur. – Chuck Palahniuk
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but thats usually how you end up crying? – Chuck Palahniuk
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. – 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
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. – Chuck Palahniuk
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. – Chuck Palahniuk
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. – Chuck Palahniuk
