Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

Fish cannot carry guns.

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.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?

Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.