Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

"After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting."

"Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it."

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

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

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

"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."

"What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction."