Chuck Palahniuk

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. ”

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task. ”

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation... they're inseparable. ”

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

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

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. ”

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. ”

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. ”

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people. ”

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