Christopher Mitchell

“Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.”
― Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

“There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did 'em, I did 'em yesterday while you were still in bed.
What about you? When's it gonna be your turn?”
― Melvin Burgess, Smack

“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding.
Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.”
― William S. Burroughs, Junky