“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.”
Truth
“I have a lot of money.”
MoneyAll Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.”
Change“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”
Future“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“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“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“You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”
Time“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.”
Change“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“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.”
Alone“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“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Happiness“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
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.”
History“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
Great“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“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 I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
Time“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“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