David McLeod

“When you get really high, you can totally imagine you are in a low budget sci-fi horror movie from the early 70s. It’s so dim that your vision actually seems grainy like cheap film stock. And sometimes you imagine that clumps of the green slime are moving, coming to life, developing appetites that might give them cause to exit their watery prisons and seek out blood-filled flesh on land. Kind of like a low budget sci-fi horror movie from the early 70s. But where were we?”
― G. Arthur Brown, I Like Turtles: The Collected Flashes of G. Arthur Brown

“Once I have forgotten what I appeared to know, then I can desirously love that which I cannot think.”
― Simon Critchley, Mysticism

“As if in a trance was how I did everything. As I see it, that’s pretty much how all living gets done. It’s only when the integrity of the trance gets compromised that things go wrong, that time is felt, that the world is seen, that the work of being alive begins.”
― Gary J. Shipley, So Beautiful and Elastic

“The men came molded in their clothes—their skin rigid, their hair all of a piece—but the women were strippable and their skin was prickable and their hair was grippable.”
― Kathryn Scanlan, The Dominant Animal