Philip K. Dick Quotes

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

I think everybody's nuts.

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

Madness breeds madness.

I have a plan-to go mad.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

The United States is a madhouse.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

I'll die a crazy old man!

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

In that way lies madness.