Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

“The only frontier left is the world of intangibles. Everything else is sewn up too tight.”

“In most hospitals, paging Nurse Flamingo means a fire. Dr. Blaze means a fire. Dr. Green means a suicide. Dr. Blue means somebody stopped breathing. Nothing is straight forward anymore. In a grocery store, paging Mr. Cash is a call for an armed security guard. Paging Freight check to Womens Clothing means somebody is shoplifting in that department. Other stores page a fake woman named Sheila. Sheila to the front means somebody is shoplifting in the front of the store. Mr. Cash and Sheila and Nurse Flamingo are always bad news. Its what people say when they dont want you to hear the truth.”

“Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. Thats how beautiful she looks.”

“maybe humans are just the pet alligators that Gd flushed down the toilet”

“flowers bloom and diewind brings butterflies or snowa stone wont notice”

“I suppose these things happen”

“The only thing worse than losing at love was winning.”

“As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen”

“Never regret. If its good, its wonderful. If its bad, its experience.”

“While they stood, the Mommy said if you ever want to be the first person to board an airplane and if you want to travel with your pet, you can do both, easy. The airlines have to let crazy people carry their animals on their laps. The government says so.This is more important information to live by.”

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”

“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.”

“The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”

“To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.”

“Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.”

“If youre not drunk and half-naked by now then you havent been paying attention”

“Prepare...to evacuate soul.”

“Watching white moon faceThe stars never feel angerBlah, Blah, Blah, the end.”

“Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”

“masochism is a valuable job skill”