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

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

"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give."
— Philip K. Dick

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

"My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression."
— Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

"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

"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

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

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

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

"How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear."
— Philip K. Dick (A Scanner Darkly)

"Fish cannot carry guns"
— Philip K. Dick (VALIS)

"There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me.'"
— Philip K. Dick

"If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!"
— 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

"I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile."
— Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

"The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. "
— Philip K. Dick (VALIS)

"The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real."
— Philip K. Dick

"The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them."
— Philip K. Dick (VALIS)

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe."
— Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

"Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?
"
— Philip K. Dick (The Man Who Japed)

"Emigrate or Degenerate"
— Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

"There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. "
— Philip K. Dick (VALIS)

"I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong."
— Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)

"In a one-party system there is always a landslide."
— Philip K. Dick (Radio Free Albemuth)

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

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
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— Philip K. Dick

"Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked."
— Philip K. Dick