Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

No one is ever who they purport to be.

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

No one is who they pretend to be

Humor is reason gone mad.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

I can fool people that I was educated.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

"Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all.

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

Do not be deceived by impostors.