Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

We live in a bewildering world.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that's what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle? I certainly didn't.

Everything in our world tends to be built on either/ors, and either/ors inevitably make enemies.

Basically, I really love work that puts the reader into a kind of vertigo, into a real doubt, and a beautiful way to convey that, a really perfect metaphor for that, is to make the reader also experience doubt.

It's an either/or world now.

If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.

Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.