“We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had… — 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… — 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… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's… — 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
God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“There is a line somewhere in Wozzeck that translates out to, roughly, 'The world is awful.' Yes, I said to myself as… — 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
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — 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
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous… — 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
The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I saw a segment of Douglas Trumbull's special effects for 'Blade Runner' on the KNBC-TV news. I recognized it immediately. It was… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So… — 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
