Chuck Palahniuk

“The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.”

“Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.”

“At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'”

“You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”

“The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put in...”

“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.”

“Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.”

“We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.”

“I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65.”

“My policy is to not read any reviews.”

“Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.”

“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”

“The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.”

“Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.”

“My books are all fantastically sentimental.”

“I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.”

“The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.”

“If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.”

“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”

“We kind of deny the stages of life.”