Rowan Lawrence

“The Pythagoreans, you have to remember, were extremely weird. Their philosophy was a chunky stew of things we’d now call mathematics, things we’d now call religion, and things we’d now call mental illness.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not To Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday

“If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

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

“How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just—change. With nothing causing it.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly