“Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.”
God
“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.”
AloneAll Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”
Good“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.”
Time“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
Great“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.”
Life“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.”
Alone“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.”
Love“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
Happiness“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.”
Best“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
Education“If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.”
Hope“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.”
Romantic“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”
Future“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.”
Future“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Happiness“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”
Alone“I have a lot of money.”
Money“Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.”
Time“Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.”
Age“Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?”
Freedom