ekahyl21

[ekahyl21]

That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

Society says your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better out of life.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

Make me into anything, but just love me.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

The hardest blessing you give up is silence.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

The key to salvation is how much attention you get. How high a profile you get. Your audience share. Your exposure. Your name recognition. Your press following. The buzz.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

My gold­fish and me, both of us are just here swim­ming in one place.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

As if any one of those peo­ple isn’t al­ready look­ing around for a new gu­ru to make sense out of their risk-free bore­dom of a lifestyle while they watch the news on tele­vi­sion and pass judg­ment on me.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

It just seems natural. You and me against a world.

Chuck Palahniuk

[ekahyl21]

I know that I’m going to die and that you’re going to die. I can’t do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

Chuck Palahniuk