Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. – 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
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. – Chuck Palahniuk
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. – Chuck Palahniuk
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. – George Saunders