Philip K. Dick Quotes
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'We should celebrate,' Rita said.'Yes. I'm where I wanted to be.' Benteley sipped the remains of his drink. 'Working for the Directorate. Sworn in to the Quizmaster. That’s what I set out for, that day. It seems like a long time ago. Well, I've finally arrived.' He gazed down at his glass and was silent.'How do you feel?''Not much different.'
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If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.
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The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.
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The book business is hidebound.
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I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.
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Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion? Or is it illusion, Barney? I don’t know anything about philosophy; you explain it to me because all I know is religious faith and that doesn’t equip me to understand this.
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He flushes at his presence in a comfort station.
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When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
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I realized, then, that I had stood without intending to. Flight reaction, I said to myself. Instinctive. Upon experiencing close adversaries. The lizard part of the brain.
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A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.
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The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
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The core of my writing is not art but truth.
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Robert Arctor halted. Stared at them, at the straights in their fat suits, their fat ties, their fat shoes, and he thought, Substance D can’t destroy their brains; they have none.
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Comprehension follows perception.
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Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.
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Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
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Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.
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The highway construction truck tore up the street at forty miles an hour.
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'matter is plastic in the face of mind.'
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Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
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'God,' Eldritch said, 'promises eternal life. I can do better; I can deliver it.'
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Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.