Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,

It sounds as if you'd like to be God.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

You can't fool people into loving you.

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Art never comes from happiness

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

The lucky ones are just born dead.