Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold. ”

In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people. ”

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself. ”

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely. ”

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that. ”

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable. ”

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

The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense. ”

To be honest, I hate silence. ”

If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic. ”