Saint Opium

“A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“We have enough space in our hearts, but we are afraid of allowing animals shit and mess around with our feelings.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I don’t like being kidnapped. Or manipulated.”

“I’ve done neither, silly. Though I’d like to hear about your other kidnap incidents. The aspects that put you off the experience.”
― Roberta Pearce, The Value of Vulnerability

“I realised from quite early on in my childhood that I saw things differently from other people,' he wrote. 'But, more than not, it's helped me in my life. Psychopathy(if that's what you call it) is like a medicine for modern times. If you take it in moderation it can prove extremely beneficial. It can alleviate a lot of existential ailments that we would otherwise fall victim to because our fragile psychological immune systems just aren't up to the job of protecting us. But if you take too much of it, if you overdose on it, then there can, as is the case with all medicines, be some rather unpleasant side effects.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success