Chuck Palahniuk: Quotes about life

“I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.”

“Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.”

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”

“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 can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.”

“The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.”

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

“Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.”

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”

“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.”

“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”

“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”

“If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?”

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”

“We just had a near-life experience!”

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

“Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.”