Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I'm Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn't supposed to be like this.

People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?

Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids.

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

I claimed myself and remade my life.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

I couldn't wait to come to New York to reinvent myself.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it's part of growing up; it's also an attempt to reinvent myself.

Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

It's one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you've got to be willing to leave what's familiar and go out to find your own sound.

It's a simple liberating reality - the best things in life are mine for the choosing.

I’ve chosen my life — now I want to start living it.