Chuck Palahniuk

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

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

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

We just had a near-life experience!

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

A book is as private and consensual as sex.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.