Philip K. Dick Quotes
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I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's bad off, isn't it?
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In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.
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Where there’s dope, there’s hope!
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It was evident to Elias Tate that this was the government. First they shake hands with you, he thought, and then they murder you.
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They think they are free because they have never been free, and do not know what it means.
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Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive. Even though I can't prove that, even though it isn't logical - I believe it.
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No one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won. The dust which had contaminated most of the planet’s surface had originated in no country, and no one, even the wartime enemy, had planned on it.
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Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
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We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
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The hell with him, he thought bitterly. The hell with patriotism in general. In the specific and the abstract. Birds of a feather, soldiers and cops. Anti-intellectual and anti-Negro. Anti-everything except beer, dogs, cars and guns.
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Helping people was one of the two basic things Fat had been told to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channelled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.
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The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are.
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The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
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'You are certain you can keep the truth from her?' 'Sure,' Ed said confidently. 'I know I can.' 'All right.' The Old Man nodded slowly. 'I will send you back. But you must tell no one.' He swelled visibly. 'Remember: you will eventually come back to me - everyone does, in the end - and your fate will not be enviable.'
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'How come you didn’t recognize me?' Hentman said crossly. 'Aren’t I world-famous? Or maybe you don’t watch TV.'
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The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'
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You’re a goldmine of misinformation.
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Cris didn't play fair. He had watched half an hour - then come out and thrown once. One perfect toss, one dead ringer.
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I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. … I often have the feeling - and it does show up in my books - that this is all just a stage.
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I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.
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'Is it my fault?' Joe said. 'Did I make that quarter you gave me obsolete?' He felt anger.'In some weird way,' Al said, 'yes, it is your fault. But I don’t know how. Maybe one day I’ll figure it out.'
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Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
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This time, there was no punishment from above. Sighing, Hamilton almost wished there had been; the capricious personality element infuriated him. There was just too little relationship between deed and punishment; the lightning was probably cutting down some totally innocent Cheyennite, on the far side of town.
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'Are you an official of some kind? Like a greeter? Or from the L. A. Chamber of Commerce? I've had dealings with them and they’re all right.''No,' Buckman said. 'I'm an individual. Like you.'