A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A book is as private and consensual as sex.

— Chuck Palahniuk

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.

— Chuck Palahniuk

After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care.

— Chuck Palahniuk

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

— Chuck Palahniuk

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk