Chuck Palahniuk

It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

Chuck Palahniuk

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Chuck Palahniuk

Love is a skill you learn.

Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do. The things you don’t finish.

Chuck Palahniuk

Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power.

Chuck Palahniuk

More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.

Chuck Palahniuk

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don’t want to waste my time with them.

Chuck Palahniuk

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

Chuck Palahniuk

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

Chuck Palahniuk