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.
Weitere Zitate von Chuck Palahniuk
Zum Autor"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
"Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away."
"After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis."
"They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost."
"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."
"You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved."