Art never comes from happiness.

— Chuck Palahniuk

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

— Chuck Palahniuk

As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A woman calls from Sea view to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city with the kids and the nanny and the dog, and here they are with all heir luggage, and their towels are gone. Disappeared. Poof. Bermuda triangulated.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A woman eats to feed her pussy." Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Believe in me and you shall die, forever.

— Chuck Palahniuk