Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.

Fear has many faces.

The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.

Terror is the order of the day.

After September 11th, every day seems like September 12th.

I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.

Ultimately, if you look at all my films from 'Bloody Sunday' on, they're steeped in a post-9/11 atmosphere. 'United 93' is directly about 9/11, of course, but every one of the movies deals with paranoia, mistrust, and fear.

There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.

We live in a world dominated by fear and paranoia.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.