Quotes from book

Survivor

“You have a choice. Live or die.
Every breath is a choice.
Every minute is a choice.
Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.”

“Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.”

“What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.”

“The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them?
Because we were out of raspberries.
Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.”

“Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.”

“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

“The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”

“These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.”

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”

“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

“this is the upside of already being eternally damned”

“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”

“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”

“Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.”

“Reality means you live until you die… the real truth is nobody wants reality.”

“Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.”

“The joke is, we all have the same punchline.”

“My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.”