"‎Are you there, Satan? It’s me…I do hereby forever abandon abandoning all hope. Honestly, I give up on giving up. I give up on being some hopeless, disillusioned wretch with no aspirations for the rest of eternity. In all probability, The Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts, I still can’t scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it Pollyanna Syndrome. If forced to I guess, you’d say I’ve spent a lifetime of chasing rainbows."

-  Chuck Palahniuk (excerpt from “Damned”)