The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the...

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.

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it’s so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you’re double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few...

Tyler’s words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

Anybody’s true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

…,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you’re lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they...

You realize you have no control over how you’re perceived.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

I dread the promotion part of my job. It’s agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I’m shocked by the deeply personal things I’ve put into books without...

I think it’s more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There’s a reason men don’t read, and it’s because books don’t...

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, ‘Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.’ That made...

La primera regla del Club de la lucha es: nadie habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La segunda regla del Club de la lucha es: NADIE habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La...

She said when a boy and a girl dog copulate, the head of the boy’s penis swells and the vaginal muscles of the girl constrict. Even after sex, both dogs remain locked together, helpless and...

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

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn’t glitter and shine.

I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with...

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...

I hate how I don’t feel real enough unless people are watching.

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn’t born, he’s made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

But if you tell folks you’re a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person...

I’m always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot...

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

I don’t do much more than organise other people’s ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and...

I’m only confrontational with my friends.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this – attack ourselves – every hour of our lives.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f— you up, every time.

Give me lust, baby.Flash.Give me malice.Flash.Give me detached existentialist ennui.Flash.Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.Flash.

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

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the...

The same way a compact disk isn’t responsible for what’s recorded on it, that’s how we are. You’re about as free to act as a programmed computer. You’re about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

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...

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn’t it just lie there and rot?

Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

I tell everyone I interact with what I’m working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

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...