11 Quotes by Chris Fleming

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Addiction is reliable; dealers rarely are.

We need all five starters on the floor as much as possible.

Yeah, we expected this. Honestly, we came in thinking, what do we have to lose? Everyone else thinks we're underdogs. We think we can beat this team.

We're just being gracious and really enjoying it. We're not like the big schools. We've never had this before.