your heart is my pinata

Upon being asked about his books, Chuck had this to say....

"If you haven’t already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.

In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus." ~Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)

*This blog contains images with quotes above each image from one of Chuck Palahniuk's books.*

  I had the honor of getting to see Chuck Thursday night at Hal & Mal's for his Damned tour. 

If you are not familiar with this author, i highly suggest you become so.  

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.~Choke

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 that 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. 

~Fight Club

"Behind a veil, you're the great unknown," she says. "Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you."

The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic. ~ Invisible Monsters

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.~Lullaby

 She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around of the base of a penis. ~Invisible Monsters

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create. ~Choke

 And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.  It got until she didn’t belong anywhere. It got so nobody was good enough, refined enough, real enough. Nothing was as real as her imagined world.~Diary

You will always have some excuse not to live your life.~Haunted