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

"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

"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. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers….This is why I love SF. I love to read it; I love to write it. The SF writer sees not just possibilities but wild possibilities. It's not just 'What if' - it's 'My God; what if' - in frenzy and hysteria. The Martians are always coming."
— Philip K. Dick

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

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
— Oscar Wilde

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized."
— Baha'i International Community

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche