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" In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us. "

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" Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Stronger

Power

Men

" What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. "

" Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself. "

" Every author has to eventually write a food book. "

" A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. "

" 'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid. "

" 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 of acts of profanity. "

" We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. "

" Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? "

" Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them. "

" If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. "

" The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring. "

" I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. "

" The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. "

" Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur. "

" I come from generations of farmers. "

" When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.' "

Chuck Palahniuk

Say

Tell

" I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely. "

" 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. "

" Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? "

" I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power. "

" To be honest, I hate silence. "

" I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere. "

" If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. "

" My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits. "

" My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level. "

" I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Noodles

Prison

" I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. "

Chuck Palahniuk

Child

Lucky

" I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself. "

" I just don't want to die without a few scars. "