Chuck Palahniuk

Every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Nobody can expect you to remember every near-death experience.

(about Colonial Dunsboro) We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

(Insert word) isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

There's an opposite to Deja vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

How can it be prostitution if all the women were dead?

Art never comes from happiness

The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography.

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

In America, if your addiction isn't always new and improved, you're a failure.

... if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again. That if someday you were caught, exposed and revealed enough, then you'd never be able to hide again. There'd be no difference between your public and your private lives.