Shay Callison

“Flattery is addictive. Convince others they are special. Assure them they have talent. Make yourself the source of people's self worth. Doing so binds them to you and it preempts them from developing their skills and proving their true potential.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“The measure of a man is not what he does for wages but what he does with his free time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Time legitimizes the outrageous.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day