Chuck Palahniuk: Trending quotes (page 16)

“I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.”

“Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.”

“Its only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything.”

“The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast.”

“Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.”

“Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.”

“You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble.”

“Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.”

“Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.”

“Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.”

“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction. These people with dead children, you want to tell them, go ahead. Blame yourself. There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.”

“I know this because Tyler knows this.”

“It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.”

“I want to have your abortion.”

“It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.”

“Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.”

“He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.”

“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”

“The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”