Quotes from book

Choke

“If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play "The Blue Danube Waltz," get the hell out. Don't think. Run.”

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

“Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.”

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

“Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?”

“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.”

“I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.”

“Sex pretty much cures everything.”

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

“Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."
Like somehow we're running out of time.”

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

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

“Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.”

“This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.”

“This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.”

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

“So if you think this is going to save you… If you think anything is going to save you… Please consider this your final warning.”

“Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.”

“We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”