Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore.

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

All I really need is my bed and my art around me.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human.

In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.

The soule needs few things, the body many.

Never forget that all you have is all you need.

Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

Everything we need is already there. The challenge is letting go of all our stuff in the way.

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

People see what they want to see when they need to.

I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.