Par exemple:
"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person." Invisible Monsters
"We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." Diary
"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known." Invisible Monsters
"The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible 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
"We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens." Fight Club
"In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display." Rant
"No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close." -Invisible Monsters
"That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version." Stranger than Fiction
"Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against."
"Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories."
"What we don't understand we can make mean anything."
"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."
I can read and re-read his stories over and over, every single time picking out a new favorite quotation or passage. Unlike other authors I loved in high school and revisit with disappointment (coughsalingercough), Palahniuk does me right every time. I can only hope that one day someone will read my words and feel even an inkling of what I feel for Palahniuk; they'll read and think "why, that's exactly what I've always felt, but I've never been able to put it that eloquently before".
