Chuck Palahniuk

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Chuck Palahniuk

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Chuck Palahniuk

There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

Chuck Palahniuk

There’s no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Chuck Palahniuk

There’s no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can’t re-create what’s over.

Chuck Palahniuk

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

Chuck Palahniuk

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Chuck Palahniuk

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

Chuck Palahniuk

We’ve spent so much time judging what other people created that we’ve created very, very little of our own.

Chuck Palahniuk