"Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit."
— Philip K. Dick

"a dream is only a memory of the future"
— Steve Erickson

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. "
— Philip K. Dick

"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."
— Philip K. Dick

"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."
— Philip K. Dick

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Ford Gibson

"'If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation."
— Steve Erickson (The Sea Came in at Midnight)

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
— Philip K. Dick

"No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up."
— Philip K. Dick (The Transmigration of Timothy Archer)

"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 them."
— Philip K. Dick

"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night."
— Philip K. Dick

"If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!"
— Philip K. Dick

"Reality is what won't go away when you stop believing in it."
— Philip K. Dick

"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."
— Philip K. Dick

"How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish."
— Philip K. Dick (Radio Free Albemuth)

"The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent."
— William Ford Gibson

"The present tense made him nervous"
— William Ford Gibson

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
— William Ford Gibson

"Time is money, but also money is money."
— William Ford Gibson (Pattern Recognition)

"He took a duck in the face at 250 knots."
— William Ford Gibson (Pattern Recognition)

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."
— William Ford Gibson

"To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing"
— William Ford Gibson

"Damien is a friend.
Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say."
— William Ford Gibson (Pattern Recognition)

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
— Neil Gaiman

"Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections)

"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
— Neil Gaiman

"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."
— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes)

"Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins."
— Neil Gaiman

"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."
— Alan Moore (Batman: The Killing Joke)

"That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics."
— Alan Moore

"No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise."
— Alan Moore (Watchmen)

"Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious."
— Alan Moore

"Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket."
— Alan Moore

"Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations."
— Alan Moore

"All we ever see of stars are their old photographs."
— Alan Moore