Chuck Palahniuk Choke Quotations

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography.

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

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

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

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

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

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.