Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniukis an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into an acclaimed film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CityPasco, WA
CountryUnited States of America
forever investment proof
Proof that no investment is yours forever.
growing-up stupid phases
Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.
goal long remember
My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
differences ends knows
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
fight-club-novel knows
I know this because Tyler knows this.
rooms firsts owners
At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
bother ifs
If you're going to read this, don't bother.
jobs gun mouths
Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
becoming-one becoming stories
I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.
single real adventure
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
baby coping-mechanisms giving
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
mom sorry
Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.
fighting bruises okay
Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.
motor-oil years feet
For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.