Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.
Philip K. DickDeath hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.
Philip K. DickI 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. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers
Philip K. DickIf the last to know heโs an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.
Philip K. Dick