David > David's Quotes

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“You’re going up and up and up and not getting anywhere. It’s the illusion of progress. What you want to think is your salvation. What people forget is a”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“It’s that kind of faux wisdom. That kind of Chinese food enlightenment where you know that ten minutes after your head clears, you’ll forget it all.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“telling me makes perfect sense. For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved? With all due respect. According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“You realize that people take drugs because it’s the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It’s only in drugs or death we’ll see anything new, and death”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished. The agent’s yelling that no matter how great you look, your body is just something you wear to accept your Academy Award. Your hand is just so you can hold your Nobel Prize. Your lips are only there for you to air-kiss a talk show host.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand. No, everybody”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“agent, the people out there looking for a leader, they want vibrant. They want massive. They want dynamic. Nobody wants a little skinny god. They want a thirty-inch drop between your chest and waist sizes. Big pecs. Long legs. Cleft chin. Big calves. They want more than human. They want larger than life size. Nobody wants just anatomically correct. People want anatomical enhancement. Surgically augmented. New and improved. Silicone-implanted. Collagen-injected.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won’t settle for just a human”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Everything we did to fix me had side effects we had to fix. Then the fixes had side effects to fix and so on and so on.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Some people still think knowledge is power.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“We’re the culture that cried wolf.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“The Book Barn.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“And maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When they had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving them an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Reed once thought that love was akin to passion, but he saw now that it was something different entirely; that it was, perhaps, a kind of faith.”
― Alma Katsu, The Hunger

“This is the way werewolf stories go. Never any proof. Just a story that keeps changing, like it’s twisting back on itself, biting its own stomach to chew the poison out.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels