“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
Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me. — 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
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. — 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
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
“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“After he saw God [Tony Amsterdam] felt really good, for around a year. And then he felt really bad. Worse than he… — 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
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I am life,’ the girl said. ‘What?’ he said, startled. ‘To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and… — 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
Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of… — 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
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
