Words matter. These are the best Philip K. Dick Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
The Martians are always coming.
The core of my writing is not art but truth.
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.
Movies like ‘Westworld’ used ideas I’d thought of a long time ago.
If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.
I don’t write beautifully – I just write reports about our condition.
Comprehension follows perception.
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.
I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.
The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.
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.
Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.
I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
