Quotes from Chris Fleming

Reverie allows us to imagine other possibilities than those which lie immediately before us, other worlds than those we inhabit.

Proven conspiracies very often involve a banality and institutional disorganization that is conspicuously missing from the average conspiracy theory, in which countless numbers of conspirators from multiple organizations are able to march in evil lockstep ad infinitum.

fruit-in-the-bottom sounds like a homophobic uncles rule about bunkbeds

I now think that it was in my honours year that drugs and I got very tight, became best friends, pledged allegiance to one another.

As far back as I can remember, I've had a strong sense of being permeable, porous, of my body being open to the unpredictable forces of outside matter – of seeing myself and my actions in terms of what I've swallowed or been immersed in, what I've touched or been touched by, what I've injected, ingested or inhaled.

The structure soon became clear: cocaine was for people who'd succeeded, whose principal tool of drug delivery was the rolled bill; pot was for Gen X slackers who wanted to 'chill' or musos who wanted to be 'creative'; and speed was for losers, for junkies who couldn't get heroin, or else for miscellaneous ex-crims with facial tattoos who now did long-haul trucking.

Addiction is reliable; dealers rarely are.

For most long-term users, a substantial part of the high usually precedes the intake and uptake of drugs. Setting up the deal or, better, having the drugs in one's possession, produces a high sometimes more substantial than that produced by the substances themselves. Watching junkies set up a score is to witness a shift in behaviour and temperament much more obviously euphoric than what appears to come over them after they inject.

It is highly culturally diagnostic that the debate about climate change has been, from all quarters, heavily shaped by claims of conspiracy.