“Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.”
God
“Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.”
HistoryAll Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
“Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.”
God“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”
Alone“You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”
Time“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.”
Change“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“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”
Power“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
Education“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.”
Alone“I have a lot of money.”
Money“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“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.”
Change“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”
Politics“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Happiness“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
Great“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“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“I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.”
Relationship“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
God“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