Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 6

If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

You can't be beautiful until you feel beautiful.

How she looks is watered-down.
How she looks is disappearing.
How she looks is erased.
"Don't stress", she says. "This is just me not wearing any makeup.

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

Sex pretty much cures everything.

I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.

A woman eats to feed her pussy." Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification.

I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.

For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

So you just walk home.

Godless, 'we had no war.'
Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.