Philip K. Dick Quotes

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

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

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

... madness entered my veins.

... the work of lunatics.

… the ravings of a maniac

... a paranoid person with delusions.

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.