Quote

The things you used to own, now they own you.

Chuck Palahniuk

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
Used
Things
Drapes

More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Image
A good story should change the way you see the world.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Don’t ask me when be­cause I don’t re­mem­ber, but some­where along the way I keep for­get­ting to com­mit sui­cide.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
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.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
This isn’t really death, Tyler says, We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old. I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
Chuck Palahniuk