Chuck palahniuk

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going...

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.