I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. I often have the feeling — and it does show up in my books — that this is all just a stage.
Philip K. DickWhom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
Philip K. DickPeople have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true.
Philip K. DickAll responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind
Philip K. DickThat is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
Philip K. DickYou will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.
Philip K. Dick