Chuck Palahniuk: life quotes

You can forget me <...> But that doesn't mean I don't still exist.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

"If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't."

"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives."

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way.

Where every day doesn’t start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

... Nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

“Enough of any stress,” the doctor says, “good or bad, love or pain, can cripple our reason and bring us ideas and talents we can achieve in no other way.”

She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget

When that breaks down, and it always does, the dreamer returns to the world.

Anything you're ever proud of will be thrown away.

Then she turns on the television, some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now?

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden.