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, Dick wr...
I have an odd paradox for you, he said. Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!
Here is a piece of metal which has been melted until it has become shapeless. It represents nothing. Nor does it have design, of any intentional sort. It is merely amorphous. One might say, it is mere...
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
He thought, too, about his need for a real animal; within him an actual hatred once more manifested itself toward his electric sheep, which he had to tend, had to care about, as if it lived. The tyran...
Fish cannot carry guns.
First, strangely, the owls had died. At the time it had seemed almost funny, the fat, fluffy white birds lying here and there, in yards and on streets; coming out no earlier than twilight as they had...
FRECK: (Casually) I bought a methedrine plant today. BARRIS: (With a snotty expression on his face) Methedrine is a benny, like speed; it’s crank, it’s crystal, it’s amphetamine, it’s made synthetical...
Everything wears out eventually; nothing is permanent. Change is the one constant of life.
Don’t you feel it? he kidded her. The historicity?
Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.
Dear Jeff,I happened to see the Channel 7 TV program Hooray for Hollywood tonight with the segment on . (Well, to be honest, I didn't happen to see it; someone tipped me off that was going to be a pa...
Because of an imaginary voice, Nicholas had become a whole person; rather than the partial person he had been in Berkeley. If he had remained in Berkeley he would have lived and died a partial person,...
As the spring rains fall, soaking in them, on the roof, is a child’s rag ball.
As long as some creature experienced joy, then the condition for all other creatures included a fragment of joy. However, if any living being suffered, then for all the rest the shadow could not be en...
Amazed, Fat said, She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?Only to monsters, Dr. Stone said.
After he saw God [Tony Amsterdam] felt really good, for around a year. And then he felt really bad. Worse than he ever had before in his life. Because one day it came over him, he began to realize, th...
A person’s authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as he relates to different people; it is created by and appears within the framework of his interperson...
They won’t help a hurt man up from the gutter due to the obligation it imposes.
Over beside Mr. Baynes, General Tedeki said in a soft voice, You witness the man’s despair. He, you see, was no doubt raised as a Buddhist. Even if not formally, the influence was there. A culture in...