Chuck Palahniuk

“There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.”

“The lucky ones are just born dead.”

“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.”

“Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.”

“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.”

“Believe in me and you shall die, forever.”

“The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like...”

“إن الناس إذا أعتقدوا أن تحتضر ، يعطونك كامل اهتمامهم .. إذا كانت هذه هي آخر مرة يرونك فيها يرونك حقًا .. وينسون كل شيء آخر عن دفاتر شيكاتهم وأغاني الراديو و العناية بشعرهم . إنك تظهر باهتمام...”

“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant me...”

“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”

“I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time.”

“In Hell, hope is a really, really bad habit, like smoking cigarettes or fingernail biting. Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break.”

“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 t...”

“Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is...”

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”

“What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.”

“That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeeme...”

“The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary bec...”

“For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, ne...”

“Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.”