(I don't want this blog to become a repository for quotes only, but this one is just too good to ignore and let pass)

"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. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

And while we're at it:

"Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them."

-- Chuck Palahniuk (again)