Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

The people in my songs are all me.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

Whatever you are inside, the good and bad will manifest in the outside world. It will come out in some way. It will come out in your work. It will come out in words. It will come out.

I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.

I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self.

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

I am the sum total of what I have been confessing through the years.

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

We don't know our own story.

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.