In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“No one, it appeared to Barney, had anything to do now; the weight of empty time hung over them all.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I think," Dr. Stone said, "that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“You learn to get by from day to day," Sam Regan said sympathetically to him. "You never think in longer terms. Just… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Future and past blurred; what he had already experienced and what he would eventually experience blended so that nothing remained but the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“In our time we maintain colonies on Mars, on Luna; we’re perfecting workable interstellar flight—these people have not been able to cope… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and time creations of our own psyche and when these momentarily falter… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Make it?" Fred echoed. "Make what? The team? The chick? Make good? Make out? Make sense? Make money? Make time? Define your… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is freighted with the load… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home… — 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
“They stole my bank account,” Gloria said. After a time he realized, from her measured, lucidly stated narration, that no “they” existed.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“At that moment, when I had the TV sound off, I was in a 382 mood; I had just dialed it. So… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron Prison, but set in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The anti-precog has to be present when the precog is in the process of deciding, not after. The anti-precog makes all futures… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“In Southern California it didn't make any difference anyhow where you went; there was always the same McDonaldburger place over and over,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at… — 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
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
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Eventually he forgot what event had started off his decline into entropy; God mercifully occludes us to the past as well as… — 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
