Chuck Palahniuk (b. 1962)

Charles Michael Palahniuk is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adult coloring books, as well as several short stories. His first published novel was Fight Club, which was adapted into a film of the same title.

Quotes

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
We just had a near-life experience!
On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels.
Masochism is a valuable job skill.
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

The Future
When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer dryer pair.
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.