VALIS

by Philip K. Dick

sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

The linking and relinking of objects by the Brain is actually a language,

And if time can turn into space, can space turn into time?

I’ve always told people that for each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the first realization) that another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person.

On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.

“That which is above is that which is below.”

How many worlds do we exist in simultaneously?

Is the Empire “which never ended” an illusion?

one of those corkscrew artifacts of culture in which you get the subjective sense that you’ve learned something from it, something valuable or even priceless; but on closer inspection you suddenly begin to scratch your head and say, “Wait a minute. This makes no sense.”

How? Why? Please explain.

This man has been healed to death.

The day of power, which is the enemy of Wisdom, ends.

“Do not fear; speak out and Wisdom will guide you.

And I did not want that; I had too many things to do. What exactly did I have to do? I didn’t know.