Chuck Palahniuk
  • I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

  • The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

  • Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

  • Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

  • Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.