Jonestowne

“Among psychiatric researchers, having a job is considered one of the major characteristics of being a high-functioning person. ... Most critically, a capitalist society values productivity in its citizens above all else, and those with severe mental illness are much less likely to be productive in ways considered valuable: by adding to the cycle of production and profit.”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“purple bible-o’-madness”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“Yes, I thought, our eyes meeting, you may think I'm hot, but I'm also a rotting corpse. Sucks to be you, sir.”
― Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

“If you are meditating and a devil appears, make the devil meditate too”
― George Gurdjieff