Chuck Palahniuk

"In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power."

"With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have."

"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."

"And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap."

"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."

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

"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need."

"You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead."

"You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble."

"Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away."

"They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost."

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."