Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

I'm not perfect; I've never professed to be, and I don't want to be. How much fun is that?

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.

I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

NEVER! Never, Marge! I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the bluenoses with my cocky stride and musky odors -- oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called 'City Fathers' who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?!

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

I can't be a savior. But I can be the best I can be.

I don't care what people think anymore. I don't think I've got anything to prove.