Chuck Palahniuk (b. 1962)

Quotes

• Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

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

• The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.

• The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

• Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

• Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

• Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

• The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

• Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

• When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

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

• Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

• People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

• It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

• The things you own end up owning you.

• We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.

• Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.