"Every woman is just a different kind of problem." ~Chuck Palahniuk
"Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home ... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it." ~Chuck Palahniuk
"I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder." ~Chuck Palahniuk
"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." ~Chuck Palahniuk
“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.” ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"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." ~Chuck Palahniuk
"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown." ~Chuck Palahniuk
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.” ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.” ~Chuck Palahniuk
“The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.” ~Chuck Palahniuk
"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open." ~Chuck Palahniuk
"The faster you'll fall, the higher you'll fly." ~Chuck Palahniuk
“This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.” ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.” ~Chuck Palahniuk
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.” ~Chuck Palahniuk
Biography
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction.