Chuck Palahniuk

Romance’ is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it’s stupid.

Chuck Palahniuk

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.

Chuck Palahniuk

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

The future you have, tomorrow, won’t be the same future you had, yesterday.

Chuck Palahniuk

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

Chuck Palahniuk

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Chuck Palahniuk

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Chuck Palahniuk