Chuck Palahniuk: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 2)

“You can say anything if enough people will listen.”

“People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. So you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party… As you start down the stairway, then - magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The perfect crippling put down. That's the Spirit of the Stairway. The trouble is, even the French don't have a phrase for the stupid things you actually do say under pressure. Those stupid, desperate things you actually think or do.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

“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.”

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

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character… Would you slow down? Or speed up?”

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”

“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”

“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”

“Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”

“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”

“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”

“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”