The Narrator

"All the ways you wish you could be, that's what you could be."

"You're too late. It's already been decided."

"Human potential is unlimited when we surrender to chaos."

"Our generation has had no Great War, no Great Depression."

"We are a generation of men raised by women."

"I wanted to destroy something beautiful."

"Single-serving coffee, single-serving cream, single-serving sugar packets."

"You have to give up. That's the only way you can win."

"Only after disaster can we be resurrected."

"It is only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything."

"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."

"Nothing is static, everything is evolving."

"You have to reach the point of hopelessness as a baseline for hope."

"Everything is part of this system. Even this."

"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise."

"You're not your job, you're not your family and you're not your fucking bank account."

"The police are there to arrest people, not to stop crimes."

"You're not special. You're not a beautiful or unique snowflake."

"Mankind's greatest achievement has been the photo finish."

"You're a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct."

"At the time, my life just seemed too complete."

"It's not until you lose everything that you're free to do anything."

"I see all this potential and I see it squandered."

"Marla's philosophy of life: if you don't fail, you're not even trying."

"We don't need self-improvement, we need self-destruction."

"There's nothing wrong with you."

"You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."

"Destroy anything beautiful."

"In the end, it's not about what you have. It's about what you didn't lose."

"I felt like destroying something beautiful."