Quotes from book

Choke

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

“You gain power by pretending to be weak.”

“At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.”

“Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?”

“Art never comes from happiness.”

“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.”

“When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.”

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

“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.”

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