The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

Everything in life is just for a while.

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.

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

To live is to be haunted.

Emigrate or Degenerate.

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.