Chuck Palahniuk Tap Quotations

I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.