“I have a lot of money.”
Money
“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.”
LifeAll 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“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“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“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”
Politics“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“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.”
Change“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“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“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“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“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.”
Alone“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 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“Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.”
God“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
Time“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.”
Change“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Happiness“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“Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.”
God