Chuck Palahniuk People Quotations [Page 2]

My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.

If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

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 serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.

My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn.

I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything, so I was what they call an escort. I would take people to the support groups every night, and I would have to sit sort of on the sidelines so I could take them back to hospice at the end of the meeting.

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

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

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

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

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.