Philip K. Dick

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense.

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony... they shoot for the baroque.

"matter is plastic in the face of mind."

Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

Fish cannot carry guns.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

It was evident to Elias Tate that this was the government. First they shake hands with you, he thought, and then they murder you.

God is either powerless, stupid or he doesn't give a shit.

The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.