Quotes from Philip K. Dick

I am. I shall always be.

His world had assumed the attribute of pure mass. He perceived himself in one mode only: that of an object subjected to the pressure of weight. One quality, one attribute. And one experience. Inertia.

A humanoid robot is like any other machine; it can fluctuate between being a benefit and a hazard very rapidly.

We have a hodge-podge of leaks in reality.

You know, these great planet-wide and inter-planet-wide wars break out and everyone is supposed to be thinking of the ideologies involved . . . whereas in actuality most people simply want a good, safe night's sleep.

Already Sam Regan could feel the power of the drug wearing off; he felt weak and afraid and bitterly sickened at the realization. So goddamn soon, he said to himself. All over; back to the hovel, to the pit in which we twist and cringe like worms in a paper bag, huddled away from the daylight.

Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states.

It must be a manifestation of dying, he said to himself.

And yet, even if one person finds his way . . . that means there is a Way. Even if I personally fail to reach it.

He's getting worse. Reading aloud to no one messages that don't exist and in foreign tongues.

I suppose Relativism is cynical. It surely isn't idealistic. It's the result of being killed and injured and made poor and working hard for empty words.

Ist die traurigste Realität nicht immer noch besser als die Illusion?

I'll give you my answer when I've decided.

Triste?ea e cea mai puternic? emo?ie pe care-o poate sim?i un om, un copil sau un animal. E un sentiment bun.

He cupped her sharp, small chin in the palm of his hand, lifted her head so that she had to face him. I wonder what it's like to kiss an android, he said to himself. Leaning forward an inch he kissed her dry lips. No reaction followed; Rachael remained impassive. As if unaffected. And yet he sensed otherwise. Or perhaps it was wishful thinking.

Don't let anybody kid you about the wheel, son; money was mankind's first significant invention.

Si este lugar estuviera màs próximo a Terra, habría latas de cerveza vacias y platos de plástico por todas partes. Los árboles habrían desaparecido. Habría motores a reacción viejos tirados en el agua. Las playas despedirían un hedor de mil demonios. Construcciones Terranas habría instalado ya un par de millones de pequeñas casas de plástico.

His nose, Joe thought; it looks like the rubber bulb of a New Delhi taxi horn, soft and squeezable. And loud. The loudest noise, he thought, that I have ever seen.

Sometimes one must try anything, he decided. It is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom, of recognizing the situation.

Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.

Oamenii îÈ›i zic de toate. De la faptul c? nu faci doi bani pân? la faptul c? eÈ™ti nepreÈ›uit?. Cele mai rele È™i cele mai bune lucruri. Întotdeauna atingi pe cineva aici - cioc?ni cu degetul solniÈ›a - È™i pe cineva acolo...

For a guy with only one peeper, Olsen commented, you're doing okay. Morosely, he added: But you'd sure be up shit creek if you lost the other.

The drive of unliving things is stronger than the drive of living things.

The Nexus-6 did have two trillion constituents plus a choice within a range of ten million possible combinations of cerebral activity. In .45 of a second an android equipped with such a brain structure could assume any one of fourteen basic reaction-postures. Well, no intelligence test would trop such an andy. But then, intelligence tests hadn't trapped an andy in years, not since the primordial, crude varieties of the 1970s.