The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

A lollygagger is a person choking on a lollipop. That works perfectly, because I sell Heimlich Maneuvers in a variety of flavors.

My neck size is about the size of both of my girlfriend’s clenched hands. They say strangulation is a crime of passion, and I say it’s the sign of romance in a relationship.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

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

If a man were choking, what would I do? Depends. If that man is my boss, I’d strangle him.

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

Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy–ah, they know only too well that...

The best part about a rear naked choke, is the naked part.

Why do I do anything?’ she says. ‘I’m educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I’m so smart I can negate any dream.

Buy one I love you for $3.99. Buy twelve for $48.00. That’s a savings of twelve cents—directly into my bank account. WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Objects not intended for individuals who tend to put forever objects in...

It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we don’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it’s for sure unexplainable. Even God.

I could scarf down a scarf faster than I could eat any other throat warmer, with the possible exception of your clenched hands around my neck.

To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you’re looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the...

The police called it choking, but I called it a two-handed neck hug. That’s how I knew she really loved me.

We’ve taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory’s throat.

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.

Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.

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

Freedom can choke you if you don’t know how to handle it.