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
rain acres forests
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
men waiting tables
I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.
want glorious persons
You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.
insomnia awake
With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.
fate people brilliant
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
culture cried
We're the culture that cried wolf.
suicide gin-and-tonic gin
Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.
wall hair smell
No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.
veins acid batteries
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
girl shadow records
The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked...
procrastination reincarnation strikes
Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?
likes figures mess
I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.
laughing people track
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
honesty world boring
The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.