Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Quote by Philip K Dick

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

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

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you...

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you...

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to...

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to...

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step...

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step...

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up...

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up...

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you...

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you...

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't...

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is...

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I...

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I...

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the...

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the...

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the...

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the...

Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left...

Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left...