Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

“She says, "I'll swear by the rose tattooed on my ass, that old man raped me."Here, the funeral parade stops. At this point, Comrade Snarky is a victim among victims. The rest of us — just her suppo...”

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

“That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.”

“To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.”

“- The first rule of Fight Club is: you don't talk about Fight Club. - The second rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club- Third rule of Fight Club, if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp...”

“Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of fight club.”

“We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.”

“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

“Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are”

“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?”

“I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture...”

“I am nothing, and not even that.”

“No, we love war.War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment.“It's the mark of a very, very young soul,” Mr. Whittier used to say, “to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone ...”