Don't forget the real business of the war is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-profes… - Thomas Pynchon

I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that.

"It seemed to him [Otto Kugelblitz] obvious that the human life span runs through the varieties of mental disorder as understood in his day — the solipsism of infancy, the sexual hysterias of adolescence and entry-level adulthood, the paranoia of middle age, the dementia of late life ... all working up to death, which at last turns out to be "sanity.

If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.