Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Hot Potato is a very different game when the people playing are starving.

I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.

One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Sexuality is a topic that has huge shifts in -society. Attitudes toward different sexualities change, but the actual sexuality of a human being is something that's consistent, and it's consistently interesting, and so people write about it.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

If people don't like my style, then I can't do anything about that. I have been like that since I first entered into the game and it hasn't done me bad in the past, so I am not going to change now.

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke.

There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them up close.

The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.