Choke

by Chuck Palahniuk

torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

maybe men say they’re glad not to give birth, all the pain and blood, but really that’s just so much sour grapes. For sure, men can’t do anything near as incredible. Upper body strength, abstract thought, phalluses—any advantages men appear to have are pretty token.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we’ll never have true peace.

“Anything you can acquire,” she says, “is only another thing you’ll lose.”