Chuck Palahniuk

"There is nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics."

Your skin comes in three basic layers. What you can touch is the stratum corneum, a layer of flat, dead skin cells pushed up by the new cells under them. What you feel, that greasy feeling, is your acid mantle, the coating of oil and sweat that protects you from germs and fungus. Under that is your dermis. Below the dermis is a layer of fat. Below the fat are the muscles of your face

"What you don't understand you can make mean anything."

"Now, smile—if you still can."

If you're a little confused right now, relax. Don't worry. All you need to know is this is your face. This is what you think you know best.

"Today is the longest day of the year-but anymore, everyday is. The weather today is increasing concern followed by fullblown dread. The man calling from Long Beach, he says his bathroom is missing."

"What she learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We are all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to."

"Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit."

"You have endless ways you can commit suicide without 'dying' dying."

“... you people with your ex-wives and stepchildren, your blended families and failed marriages, you’ve ruined your world and now you want to ruin mine...”

The official name for your liver spots is hyperpigmented lentigines. The official anatomy word for a wrinkle is rhytide. Those creases in the top half of your face, the rhytides plowed across your forehead and around your eyes, this is dynamic wrinkling, also called hyperfunctional facial lines, caused by the movement of underlying muscles. Most wrinkles in the lower half of the face are tatic rhytides, caused by sun and gravity.

A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death.