Chuck Palahniuk

Art never comes from happiness

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

Art never comes from happiness.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one.

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

There are lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.