Chuck Palahniuk Alone Quotations

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.