Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.

It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.