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
How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“We're blind moles. Creeping through the soil, feeling with our snoots. We know nothing. I perceived this . . . now I… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Fear made her seem ill; it distorted her body lines, made her appear as if someone had broken her, and then, with… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The door, meagerly, opened and he saw within the apartment a fragmented and misaligned shrinking figure, a girl who cringed and slunk… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk… — 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 Image
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 Image
“That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
