Philip K. Dick Quotes
When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
I'm not much but I'm all I have.
The writer must offend people if he's going to be effective.
Everything in life is just for a while.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.
In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man.
My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.
To live is to be hunted.
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.
Fish cannot carry guns.
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane.
The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
The church of my choice is the free, open world.
The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.
God is either powerless, stupid or he doesn't give a shit.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.
Dilemma of a civilized man; body mobilized but danger obscure.
No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.
Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
We all lie to oursel ves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.
Our situation, the human situation, is, in the final analysis, neither grim nor meaningful but funny. The wisest people are the clowns.
That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous - it’s the stuff of living.
It sounds like they’re saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That’s a contradiction.
