Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.

Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.

Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.

When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.