Portrait: Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk

Quotes

  1. The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday."

  2. Andy Warhol was wrong. In the future people won't be famous for fifteen minutes. No, in the future, everyone will sit next to someone famous for at least fifteen minutes.

  3. Most of Party Crashing was just us driving in cars, talking.

  4. The big reason why folks leave a small town," Rant use to say, "is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.

  5. On the traffic cameras, the Droolers used to limp around, dragging one leg, slack-jawed, snarling. People who used to be wives, fathers, and even little kids, now--completely gone berserk, lurking in public toilets and department-store fitting rooms with one goal: to sink their spitty teeth into somebody."

  6. Rant advocating for us, our demands included a therapeutic, all-hours lunchroom, since it's a known impossibility to eat food and maintain a woody. We asked for nothing short of equal recognition for our biological...but the next word stumped us. Should we say "obstacles"?"Handicaps"?"Disabilities"? This last word, we tortured over. We finally settled on the word "burden," asking for "full and equal recognition of the burden inherent in the male anatomy." Hearing how "burden" sounded fine and noble. "

  7. If just one leader would emerge- Rant Casey or anybody- the arms of us, ready to fight and die, wouldn't we be invincible?"

  8. You're a different human being to everyone you meet. Page 18

  9. Crimes to end all crimes, wars and plagues, preached to be the end of the world. Every year of newspaper announcing another new end of the world.

  10. Money you don't work to earn, you spend very quickly."

  11. Rant Casey just wanted one thing to be real. Even if that thing was stinking with blood and guts."

  12. No shit, there's worse ways to be dead than dying."