Philip K. Dick Quotes
I used to dig in the garden, and there isn't anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass... unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you're viewing crabgrass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it in the first place? The question I always found myself asking was, 'What is it, really?'
Quotes to Explore
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
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I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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Man is an imagining being.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I speak the language of television.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
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I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot.
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I used to dig in the garden, and there isn't anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass... unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you're viewing crabgrass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it in the first place? The question I always found myself asking was, 'What is it, really?'
