"Nothing is ever as good as you can imagine it...
No one is as beautiful as she is in your head...Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy."

"Just keep asking yourself: 'What would Jesus NOT do?'"

"Art never comes from happiness."

"'We don't live in the real world anymore,' she said. 'We live in a world of symbols.'"

"Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against."

"I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut-hosing orgasm."

"Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better."

"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."

"Painting a picture, composing an opera, that's just something you do until you find the next willing piece of ass. The minute something better than sex comes along, you call me. Have me paged."

"Parenthood is the opiate of the masses"

"Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks."

"For sure, even the worst blow job is better than say, sniffing the best rose...watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh."

"it's the sexual alternative to rubbing your stomach and patting your head"

"The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possessions. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem."

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

"I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything..."

"I mean, how many times can everybody tell you that you're the oppressive, prejudiced enemy before you give up and become the enemy."

“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”

"Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer."

"You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong.
You save people by letting them save you.
All you have to do is stay fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog.
People really need somebody they feel superior to."

"The unreal is more powerful than the real.
Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
If you can change the way people think, she said. The way they see themselves. They way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create.
Besides, at some point, the Mommy used to say, your memories, your stories and adventures, will be the only things you have left"

"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are.
Letting our past decide our future.
Or we can decide for ourselves.
And maybe it's our job to invent something better."

 - Chuck Palahniuk in "Choke"