Chuck Palahniuk

"That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions."

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

"May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect."

- Chuck Palahniuk

""Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.""

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Don’t do what you want. Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"The warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability. He’s all about the freedom to be who he is."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It’s kind of like trick-or-treating."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

"The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Nothing’s going too far. Whenever I get to the point where I think things are going too far, I know I have to go there."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"You can only hold a smile for so long; after that, it's just teeth."

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- Chuck Palahniuk