You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
Weitere Zitate von Chuck Palahniuk
Zum Autor"They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost."
"Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away."
"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need."
"My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level."
"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."
"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."