Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniukis an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into an acclaimed film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CityPasco, WA
CountryUnited States of America
invisible-monsters just-love-me big-hair
Make me into anything, but just love me.
judging people littles
We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.
mom son mistress
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
depression spiritual war
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
entertaining tubes my-friends
For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.
bravery want scar
I just don't want to die without a few scars.
realizing
You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.
one-day literature realizing
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
names space corporations
When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
publishing-house self ideas
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.
god-bless bless things-you-can-control
Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.
revenge
I am Jack's smirking revenge.
lists lines shows
Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
long use lines
What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.