He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.
Philip K. DickAll responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind
Philip K. DickIf the last to know heโs an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.
Philip K. DickThen it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?
Philip K. Dick