Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

When you do not change up a lot, people may know you a lot better than they should.

I've always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went to law school with have stayed at the same firm, I feel like I'm reading an obituary. How much money do you need? Six million, seven million? Put that in the bank and do something else. Get out!

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.

I like things to have rules, I like order and I like schedules.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.