Philip K. Dick, VALIS Quotes

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

This is a mournful discovery.1)Those who agree with you are insane2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.

Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back.

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis, ' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?""Only to monsters, " Dr. Stone said.

It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise?