Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

If it is not a mess, it is not progress.

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

Turmoil stimulates.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.