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On what sets him apart from others in his genre.Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss. All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound.Quoted in Andrew Lawless, "Those burnt tongue moments - Chuck Palahniuk in interview", Three Monkeys (May 2005).That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. Here's Jesus, allowing himself to look terrible in front of his peers.

For example, in my book Choke, a character enacts his own death and resurrection every night – as does the narrator in Fight Club.

And the religion's leaders model a way of being. Most religions and belief systems provide a blueprint for some sort of community. But I need a script, a role, something that will help me overcome my fears of rejection and shame.

Closing remarks made on an eClass forum (Barnes & Noble University) ().

To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture.

Share them with friends and have a party. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing.

How sweet! You still believe in death.

"You Ask The Questions," The Independent Review ().

I'll never be heard if I'm always ranting and griping. It's time - for me, at least - to be clever and seduce people by entertaining them. My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

Why have I sold out? You think I'm supposed to grow old, beating some trite old protest drum that people don't hear anymore? Please protest is now just a backdrop for a Diesel clothing ad in a slick fashion magazine.

Response by Palahniuk to Laura Miller's review. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation.Interview with the San Francisco Bay Guardian ().'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television. I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it.You didn't invent anything." And I'm like, "Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did." I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying "We did this in the 1930s. 1.2 Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004).