Chuck Palahniuk

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke.

If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.

If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.What it's going to be, I don't know.Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.And maybe knowing isn't the point.Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

It sounds as if you'd like to be God.

If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but never exactly where you__ been reading.

The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term "depopulate" means?

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I__ the one who lost.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

No, it__ not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You__l find out for yourself soon enough. It won__ help the situation for you to get all upset.