Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick. Philip K. Dick More Quotes by Philip K. Dick More Quotes From Philip K. Dick I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test. Philip K. Dick tests love-you rooms Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. Philip K. Dick bugs guy hair And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency. Philip K. Dick preoccupation music-love writing One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced. Philip K. Dick eerie writing song Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank. Philip K. Dick real war ideas You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there. Philip K. Dick animal mean people Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how. Philip K. Dick crazy wish sometimes In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel. Philip K. Dick rebel resent authority There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it's real motives And who sent it here in the first place It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms. Philip K. Dick I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis. Philip K. Dick i-am creative writing way We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. Philip K. Dick live society political people We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu. Philip K. Dick present some living reality Comprehension follows perception. Philip K. Dick follows comprehension perception I used to dig in the garden, and there isn't anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass... unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you're viewing crabgrass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it in the first place? The question I always found myself asking was, 'What is it, really?' Philip K. Dick place myself you garden The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time. Philip K. Dick information universe space time When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression. Philip K. Dick i-am crazy depression believe I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist. Philip K. Dick novelist am i-am philosopher The core of my writing is not art but truth. Philip K. Dick core truth writing art I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis. Philip K. Dick few am i-am know In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real. Philip K. Dick everything year real god
