Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love.

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

The ideology of Miller's 'lost boys' is an incandescent mix derived from PlayStation violence, Iraq news footage, Peter Pan, William Burroughs's 'Wild Boys,' and anti-G8 millenarianism.

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.

'Fight Club' is great in its spirit of anti-establishment.

N.W.A had something in common with the Rolling Stones and MC5 and groups like that: the voice of rebellion. It's rebellion against your parents. It's rebellion against the system. It's rebellion against society.

I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even the Panthers. That was my era; that's what I was into.

There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it.

At the very least, noir offers an alternate reality - moments of real passion, a bleak code of honor, and a need for freedom amid corruption. At its best, noir offers a map of subversion.

My generation has a hard time being genuine and enthusiastic. There's a lot of irony in our culture.

Father John Misty imagines that he is a rebel. He is, but he does not realize what he is rebelling against.

I think rock should always stay a little bit outside the pale; I think it should remain a little bit dangerous - a little bit ornery, as the Americans say.

I'm a 1960s flowerchild who has refused to grow up.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

L.A.'s hippies are actually quite scary - more like Hell's Angels than the Haight-Ashbury hippies of San Francisco.

Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics.

I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.

There's nothing wrong with being a hippie.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.