Choke - Chuck Palahniuk

"We've taken the world apart," she says, "but we have no idea what to do with the pieces..."

"Like, when you're thinking about the rest of your life," she said, and she put her hand over her eyes, "you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road."

Anybody's true nature is bullshit.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

My goal is to be an engine of excitement in people's lives.

The same as any good pyramid scheme, you always have to be enrolling people at the bottom. The same as Social Security, it's a mass of good people all paying for somebody else. Nickel-and-diming these Good Samaritans is just my own personal social safety net.

I tell them, heap it on me. Make me play the big passive bottom in your guilt gang bang. I'll take everybody's load.

I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the parent who never wants you to really grow up.

I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.

You're the proof of their courage. The proof they were a hero. Evidence of their success. I do this because everybody wants to save a human life with a hundred people watching.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
Another thing she said was,
"The Enlightenment is over. What we're living in now is the Dis-Enlightenment."

"The only thing that separates us from the animals," she said, "is we have pornography."

kids are the pint-sized horsemen of the apocalypse.

I just want one person I can rescue. I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.