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. – Chuck Palahniuk
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. – Chuck Palahniuk
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? – Chuck Palahniuk
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. – Chuck Palahniuk
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. – Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. – Chuck Palahniuk
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. – Chuck Palahniuk
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? – 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. – 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
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
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
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. – Chuck Palahniuk
The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. – 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
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? – Chuck Palahniuk
