“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”
Power
“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.”
GreatAll Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
God“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“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“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“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.”
Best“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.”
Good“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“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
Education“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“Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.”
God“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
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“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.”
Alone“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.”
Change“Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.”
Time“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“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Happiness“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.”
Truth