For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them. Philip K. Dick More Quotes by Philip K. Dick More Quotes From Philip K. Dick You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore Philip K. Dick order mean people Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. Philip K. Dick sorry writing fiction A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Philip K. Dick existentialism alive want In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing. Philip K. Dick ugly-things dark long Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds. Philip K. Dick poison healing wings The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? Philip K. Dick gone doe bird Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph. Philip K. Dick squares meat eye In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim. Philip K. Dick sides trying war All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind Philip K. Dick responsible degrees wind Fish cannot carry guns. Philip K. Dick fishes gun Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. Philip K. Dick harder terrible I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it. Philip K. Dick strange-person next sometimes Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck. Philip K. Dick deck logic statistics Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations. Philip K. Dick chance skills use When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. Philip K. Dick dream two people It's not what happened but how it is told. Philip K. Dick happened statistics How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right? Philip K. Dick victim justice fall The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one. Philip K. Dick empires insane insanity The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down. Philip K. Dick editors nuts letters I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be. Philip K. Dick names world moving
