He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. Philip K. Dick More Quotes by Philip K. Dick More Quotes From Philip K. Dick I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful. Philip K. Dick meaningfulmenart To live is to be haunted. Philip K. Dick How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head? Philip K. Dick statisticsreality No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in. Philip K. Dick strengthstrongrunning It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense Philip K. Dick believe-you-cannonsensebelieve 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 tyrantsresistancepeople The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have. Philip K. Dick baffleddefeateddream THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS. Philip K. Dick failurefailingreal The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band. Philip K. Dick landmoonreal ...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern. Philip K. Dick governmentessenceevil You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer." "Did he show you slides?" We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can. Philip K. Dick cancercrazycheer When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick. Philip K. Dick tapesickfigures I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not. Philip K. Dick touristsrealchildren Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too. Philip K. Dick diessaid I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure. Philip K. Dick differencesstoriesfiction 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 Philip K. Dick new-yorkwritingreality The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis. Philip K. Dick wallrealthinking The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing. Philip K. Dick painhatedark My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Philip K. Dick preoccupationmajorsreality Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment. Philip K. Dick carerrorsmoving
