Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

"Leave this island before you can't."

"Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself."

"Dear sweet Peter. Can you feel this?"

"If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion."

"Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary."

"If you're here, then you've failed again."

"The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to tell. We want creativity to be a system of cause and effect."

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

"We were here. We are here. We will always be here. And we've failed again."

"Everyone's in their own personal coma."

"All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired."