How’s an intelligent person supposed to react when he discovers that he’s merely the product of a corrupt and evil system? How do you continue to live after you learn that your every breath, every dollar you pay in taxes, every baby you conceive and love will only perpetuate some evil system?
— Chuck Palahniuk
That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.
— Chuck Palahniuk
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
— Chuck Palahniuk
The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
— Chuck Palahniuk
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.
— Chuck Palahniuk
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
— Chuck Palahniuk
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The joke is, we all have the same punch line.
— Chuck Palahniuk
