Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.