Philip K. Dick Quotes

I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale.

What sort of an imaginary voice is that? I asked myself, suppose Columbus had heard an imaginary voice telling him to sail west. And because of it he had discovered the New World and changed human his...

Со своими чувствами вы ничего не можете поделать, зато вы в состоянии не совершать те поступки, которые совершаете.

There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

It was a battle, Jack realized, between the composite psyche of the school and the individual psyches of the children, and the former held all the key cards. A child who did not properly respond was a...

You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up? Fat said. There are worse diseases than cancer.Did he show you slides?We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you c...

He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange. A shimmer, an unsteadiness, as if the building faded forward into...

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...

You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can only imitate and sell. Middlemen.' He fixed his merciless scrutiny on Frink.'Maybe so,' Frink said.

We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.

It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry about.

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not governed and governing, but people. And

We cannot enter the monstrous schizophrenic morass of Nazi internecine intrigue; our minds cannot adapt.

Nothing could be more impolite. To say, Is your sheep genuine? would be a worse breach of manners.

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. I’m

I remember something the Buddha said after he witnessed a supposed saint walk on water: 'For a penny,' the Buddha said, 'I can board a ferry and do that.' It was more practical, even for the Buddha, t...