In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail. Philip K. Dick More Quotes by Philip K. Dick More Quotes From Philip K. Dick Matter is plastic in the face of Mind. Philip K. Dick matter mind faces How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it. Philip K. Dick ugly moments real If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. Philip K. Dick addiction men mean "Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android." Philip K. Dick care missing looks Emigrate or Degenerate. Philip K. Dick degenerates Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come. Philip K. Dick san-francisco car stars But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand. Philip K. Dick heart hands years 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 sorry writing fiction Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on. Philip K. Dick dynamism madness goes-on 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 in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory. Philip K. Dick errors memories moving They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow. Philip K. Dick play running children 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 eternity beer might Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other. Philip K. Dick toxic men world The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes. Philip K. Dick frogs criminals prison Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...? Philip K. Dick cities depression thinking I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown. Philip K. Dick knowing mean people The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won. Philip K. Dick greed silence world There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself. Philip K. Dick views heart believe The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict. Philip K. Dick umpires two believe The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for. Philip K. Dick selective unconscious
