My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced… — 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 that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man.” — 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
I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“every particle being connected with every other; you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe. It makes living a funny… — 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
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