Chuck Palahniuk

“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.”

“I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.”

“I have a lot of money.”

“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”

“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”

“I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.”

“I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.”

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

“I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.”

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”

“Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.”

“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.”