Chuck Palahniuk

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.

You know that old phrase __hose who don__ remember the past are condemned to repeat it_? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We will fling it at one another for laughs. Distort it. We will toss the story into the air at parties and howl over its ripeness. Degraded as it was, we will degrade it further. Make it more swollen. We shall render it impossibly awful, making of it the mythology of ourselves. A comfort. Proof of the trials we've survived.

She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.