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

“For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”

“From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk"Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports...At this point I am an authority on menstruation.”

“Jump ahead ten years, and not much has changed. Ten years of ther­apy, and I’m still in about the same place. This prob­ably isn’t some­thing we should cel­ebrate.”

“You just don’t know what I’ve been through this past year.”

“New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.”

“Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now?" she says.”