Echo

“What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King