A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Chuck Palahniuk

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.
Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
Chuck Palahniuk

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
Chuck Palahniuk

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Chuck Palahniuk

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Chuck Palahniuk

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
Chuck Palahniuk

I just don't want to die without a few scars.
Chuck Palahniuk

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Chuck Palahniuk

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
Chuck Palahniuk

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
Chuck Palahniuk

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
Chuck Palahniuk

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
Chuck Palahniuk

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.
Chuck Palahniuk

Masochism is a valuable job skill.
Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk