Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes From Chuck Palahniuk When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option. Chuck Palahniuk drunksadnessworry Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping. Chuck Palahniuk moneyangelrunning What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. Chuck Palahniuk expectationslifepeople You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough. Chuck Palahniuk spacekidsthinking I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. Chuck Palahniuk wallpaindeath Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong. Chuck Palahniuk easierignoranceworld We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. Chuck Palahniuk spiritualdepressionwar I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives. Chuck Palahniuk fategrowing-uprunning Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done. Chuck Palahniuk momentumgardeningideas Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine. Chuck Palahniuk shiningtruthlooks HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me. Chuck Palahniuk hellobloodlooks If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? Chuck Palahniuk changecharacterdeath Make me into anything, but just love me. Chuck Palahniuk big-hairinvisible-monstersjust-love-me She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin. Chuck Palahniuk cosmeticsmakeupskins No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. Chuck Palahniuk clubsfightingdoe Your heart is my piñata. Chuck Palahniuk heartfunlove Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart. Chuck Palahniuk lost-everythingdisasterfall The damaged loves the damaged. Chuck Palahniuk snuff We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. Chuck Palahniuk smartteachingstupid You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. Chuck Palahniuk hurtloveway
