“Lin realized that she was living in an unsustainable realm. It combined sanctimony, decadence, insecurity and snobbery in a weird, neurotic brew. It was parasitic.”

Source: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

Source: Playing with Fire

Speech given on Apr. 7, 2010 to the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce, "Economic Challenges: Past, Present and Future" http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20100407a.pdf. (See pages 13-14 of the speech transcript).

Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 21

The Independent (24 February, 1990).

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Adventures in the Nearest East (1957), Ch.1 Exploring Edom and Moab
Context: It has been said that the Bedouin Arab is a parasite that lives on the camel, and this to a great extent is true. It is the camel that carries him about; it is the camel's hair that supplies him with both his clothes and his tent; the camel's dung is the fuel of the desert; it is the camel's meat that supplies food for his banquets; the camel's milk is his beverage; and I could go on enumerating the basic gifts of the camel to his Arab master.