The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think this planet is under a spell," Elias said. "We are asleep or in a trance, and something causes us… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“But look at the aspirations of that rabbit and look at his failing. A little life trying. And all the time it… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Metabolism, he reflected, is a burning process, an active furnace. When it ceases to function, life is over. They must be wrong… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
“That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems -… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
“I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
“What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
“A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share
