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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Chuck Palahniuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1962

Topics

End You Know Want Up Lot

I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.

Life Words People Why More Awkward

Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.

Craving Understood Lot Any Writers

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

Parents Problem Now Stealing Kids

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

Love Home I Am World Hotel Go

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Hope Man Invention Things Idea Both

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

Roger Bannister

Car Training School War Nobody Hill

I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

Opportunity Think Feel Play Out

If you're an enemy, I would love for you to be a fan, because I don't like enemies.

Jason David Frank

Love You Enemy Enemies Because Fan

I still give myself the right to be highly critical of others, though.

Myself Others Right Give Critical

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

Douglas Coupland

Good Long Bad Nothing Lasts Very

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

Work Age Man Perfect Back Go

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Present Down Bring Only Your Means

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