Quotes About Philip K. Dick

Good by,' he said and hung up. What kind of world is it, he asked himself, when an android phones up a bounty hunter and offers him assistance?

We trust—I'll tell you what we trust that fouls us up, Roy; it's our goddamn superior intelligence!

We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

Even weird breed of cat like Nazi Germany comprehensible to I Ching.

And I finally found a setting for despair." Her dark, pert face showed satisfaction, as if she had achieved something of worth. "So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that's a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything, about staying here on Earth after everybody who's smart has emigrated, don't you think?

It does not have wabi," Paul said, "nor could it ever. But—" He touched the pin with his nail. "Robert, this object has wu.

Caroline said, She's terribly, terribly disruptive. So is reality, Hawthorne said.

Baritone, cultivated, rolling-out-smooth voice familiar to Reiss. 'This is Doktor Goebbels.

Italy being a traitor?" His voice grated. "The Duce—he was a clown; we all know that.

Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.

We cannot enter the monstrous schizophrenic morass of Nazi internecine intrigue; our minds cannot adapt.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then." ? Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

Come down here, he said, and we'll rent a hotel room. Why? Something I heard today, he said hoarsely. About situations involving human men and android women.

it was an odd sensation, knowing intellectually that they were machines but emotionally reacting anyhow.

Possibly his experience with the bounty hunter Phil Resch had altered some minute synapsis in him, had closed one neurological switch and opened another. And this perhaps had started a chain reaction.

Your certitude is in questionable taste, Mr. Tagomi said. It seems to press untowardly.

Pat said, "I'm living with Joe. I'm his mistress. Under our arrangement I pay his bills. I paid his front door, this morning, to let him out. Without me he'd still be in his conapt.

If there was any sin, it was that these people wanted to keep having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect. I loved them all.

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression," Iran said. "What? Why did you schedule that?" It defeated the whole purpose of the mood organ. "I didn't even know you could set it for that," he said gloomily.

While translated one could commit incest, murder, anything, and it remained from a juridical standpoint a mere fantasy, an impotent wish only.

As far as I'm concerned, the girl said, you can count that as a major objection to Mercerism. Her voice was clean and neutral; she intended only to state a fact, he realized. I guess I'll go back upstairs, he said

People suffering nervous breakdowns often do a lot of research, to find explanations for what they are undergoing. The research, of course, fails.

La mayoría de los androides que he conocido tenían más deseo de vivir que mi esposa, piensa Deckard.

She's so — well, maybe she is a witch. I mean, maybe that's what witches were … old women with strange talents. Like her — being able to pass through time.