Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

About Chuck Palahniuk:

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction.
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But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If ...

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

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

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

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

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

Chuck Palahniuk

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Chuck Palahniuk

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

Chuck Palahniuk

The future is just wasted on some people.

Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Chuck Palahniuk

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Chuck Palahniuk

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

Chuck Palahniuk

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.

Chuck Palahniuk

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

Chuck Palahniuk

I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.

Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Chuck Palahniuk

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Chuck Palahniuk

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Chuck Palahniuk

Author Bio

  • NameChuck Palahniuk
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, essayist
  • BornFebruary 21, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Journalist; Essayist
  • WorksFight Club; Choke; Rant