Philip K. Dick Quotes

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

A diary means yes indeed.

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

I've been outta my mind a long time.

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

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

Having a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control.

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.

I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.

I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.