Chuck Palahniuk People Quotations [Page 2]

These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

The future is just wasted on some people.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy s a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.

Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.