All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.
Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk
In truth, the degree of anyone’s success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no. Those many times you’re thwarted yet persevere.
Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk
More starved for applause than for any chicken dinner the occasion might offer.
Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk
I suppose it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.
Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk
Earning applause, not for any performance, but for simply not dying.
Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk.