“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Happiness
“Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.”
GodAll Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
“You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”
Time“I believe in something. But I don't 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.”
God“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?”
Change“Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.”
God“I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.”
Great“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“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”
Power“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
Time“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“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
Great“Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.”
God“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“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“It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.”
Funny“Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.”
Time“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”
Politics“Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.”
Best“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”
Good“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