Brett Burkhardt

“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
― Philip K. Dick

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell