Stranger than Fiction

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart." — Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger Than Fiction

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.

Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being." This is a trait that more "people" should encompass.

all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.

The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together separate macros that, combined, will create a reaction.

Me encantaría creer en un mundo invisible. Eso destruiría todo el sufrimiento y la presión del mundo físico. Pero también negaría el valor del dinero que tengo en el banco, de mi casa que no está nada mal y de todo mi esfuerzo. Todos nuestros problemas y todo lo bueno que nos pasa podrían desdeñarse simplemente porque no son más reales que las escenas de un libro o una película. Un mundo eterno e invisible convertiría el nuestro en una ilusión.

Slang is the writer's palette of colors.

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it.

Nobody used to look at George Washington, with his wooden teeth, in his powdered wig, and say, Fashion Victim.

That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.

Why are you alone? I mean, we are all alone. Aloneness is... that´s life. It´s the quality of our aloneness that matters.

Solitude is a natural place for a writer to be.

The problem with proximity friends is, they move away. They quit or get fired.

Friendship is what really resolves and mitigates loneliness while not compromising the self in the way that love does, romantic love does.