We are all insects, he said to Miss Ephreikian. Groping toward something terrible or divine. Do you not agree?
Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!
There's nothing worse than a perceptive universe if there's something weird about you.
The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from which he now derived nothing.
The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Get...
The door refused to open. It said, Five cents, please. He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. I’ll pay you tomorrow, he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight...
So we must presume that the worst, rather than the best, choice will be made. The sober and responsible elements will be defeated in the present clash.
She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.
Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately...
Maybe I’ll just sit here parked for a while, he decided, and alpha meditate or go into various different altered states of consciousness.
Jesus Christ! I said. You can't sleep with a bishop! I already have, Kirsten said.
It’s not just the drive. They’re right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night.Who are, dear?Robots selling things. As soon as I set down the ship. Robots and visual-audio ads. They d...
It was the mob that swept him into office. However, it's unlikely that when more sober elements prevail they'll want to support a cripple and demagogue who depends on inflaming the mass with his lies...
It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense
I am life,’ the girl said.‘What?’ he said, startled.‘To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned? Have you done anything? Look at me, look. I’m life and when you’re don...
Ferris Fremont hasn't just taken over the country,' I said, 'He's also taken over human minds. And debased them.' ¶ 'The Bible says don't judge,' Nicholas said. ¶ 'The Bible says, My kingdom is not of...
Emigrate or Degenerate.
Damn her he said to himself. What good does it do my risking my life? She doesn't care whether we own an ostrich or not. Nothing penetrates.
Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.
A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.