Philip K. Dick Quotes

If you are wise, Matson said to himself grimly, you never take one-way trips. Anywhere. Even to Boise, Idaho...even across the street. Be certain, when you start, that you can scramble back.

When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.

In his article, Bogen concluded: I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a host of detail to be marshaled in this case. But we must eventually confront directly th...

And yet, even if one person finds his way … that means there is a Way. Even if I personally fail to reach it.

Metal is from the earth, he thought as he scrutinized. From below: from that realm which is the lowest, the most dense. Land of trolls and caves, dank, always dark. Yin world, in its most melancholy a...

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

I feel the hot winds of karma driving me.

Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.

I have never yielded to reality.

I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself...

But reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate...

So you want to have gone to Mars. Very good.

Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed.

We live in a society where detachment is almost essential.

I don't judge, not even myself.

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.

If the front door is opened, Barris said, during our absence, my cassette tape recorder starts recording. It's under the couch. It has a two-hour tape. I placed three omnidirectional Sony mikes at thr...

That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...

I think, Dr. Stone said, that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time.

What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.