The Narrator

"It's only in death that we are truly alive."

"When deep in debt, there's always a way out."

"We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like."

"You're not the car you drive."

"Self-improvement isn't the goal. Self-invention is."

"I have this thing where I'm convinced that not only am I failing in life, but I'm doing it alone."

"Capitalism is just another word for freedom."

"The moment you realize you have everything, you can lose everything."

"If you don't know who you are, then you work for them."

"You're not alone in this."

"Everything in your life is a copy of a copy of a copy."

"Somewhere a man is tired of working his life away for nothing."

"The bottom line is: somewhere along the way, we stopped living."

"You have to give up."

"When you're in your own story, the ending doesn't always come when you expect it."

"Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is."

"You're trapped in an average existence."

"Without rules, what have we lost?"

"You're looking for some sort of transcendence."

"To reject this standard would be to turn my back on everything I've been taught."

"If you need permission to destroy something beautiful, you didn't want it enough."

"The things you own end up owning you more than you own them."

"We're a generation of men with no great wars, no purpose."

"Humans need meaning the way they need oxygen."

"Your job is not who you are."

"We're consumers. We are the by-products of a lifestyle obsession."

"You have to reach the end of something to understand it."

"Space monkeys don't question the hand that feeds them."

"The feeling that you get around 3 o'clock, when the day's done but there's still time to do something with it."

"In your life, you will do terrible things in the name of love."