Dr. Bloodmoney Quotes

“I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.”
― Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney

“We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?”
― Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney

“Stuart said, “I hid once in the sidewalk. Do I have to do that again?” He looked around at the rest of them, seeking an answer. “Yes,” Bonny said. “Then I will,” he said. “But I came up out of the sidewalk; I didn’t stay there. And I’ll come up again.”
― Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney

“phocomelus Hoppy Harrington generally wheeled up to Modern TV Sales & Service about eleven each morning. He generally glided into the shop, stopping his cart by the counter, and if Jim Fergesson was around he asked to be allowed to go downstairs to watch the two TV repairmen at work. However, if Fergesson was not around, Hoppy gave up and after a while wheeled off, because he knew that the salesmen would not let him go downstairs;' they merely ribbed him, gave him the run-around. He did not mind. Or at least as far as Stuart McConchie could tell, he did not mind.”
― Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney

“Only death can get us out of this and maybe not even death. Maybe it’s too late; we’ll carry this deterioration with us to the next life.”
― Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney

“He himself did not blame the president—it wasn’t the president’s fault that the Chinese had decided to honor their pact.”
― Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney

“Maybe there's a machine in Berkeley that will save me, too. Perhaps my problems can be automated out of existence.”
― Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney

“The phoce, now, seemed to have fallen deeper into his beer-induced trance;”
― Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney