A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"" Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man's god is another man's devil. As each subsequent civilization became a dominant power, among its first acts was to depose and demonize whoever the previous culture had worshiped. The Jews attacked Belief, the god of the Babylonians. The Christians banished Pan and Loki and Mars, the respective deities of the ancient Greeks and Celts and Romans. The Anglican British banned belief in the Australian aboriginal spirits known as the Mimi. Satan is depicted with cloven hooves because Pan had them, and he carries a pitchfork based on the trident carried by Neptune. As each deity was deposed, it was relegated to Hell. For gods so long accustomed to receiving tribute and loving attention, of course this status shift put them into a foul mood.

— Chuck Palahniuk

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades.

— Chuck Palahniuk