Quotes from Philip K. Dick

The core of my writing is not art but truth.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

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.

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.

I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.

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.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

I saw a segment of Douglas Trumbull's special effects for 'Blade Runner' on the KNBC-TV news. I recognized it immediately. It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly.

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

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.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.

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.

Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

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.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.

A man is an angel that has gone deranged.