Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

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.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

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.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

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.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake… This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.

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.