Philip K. Dick

The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.

We are living in a computer programmed reality and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present deja vu.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Skill is a function of chance. It's an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

Drug misuse is not a disease it is a decision like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

The core of my writing is not art but truth.

It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

The Martians are always coming.

Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

We live in a society where detachment is almost essential.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.