Chuck Palahniuk

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book. ”

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky? ”

My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn. ”

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives. ”

We kind of deny the stages of life. ”

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. ”

The first step to eternal life is you have to die. ”

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. ”

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. ”

I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die. ”