Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

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.

No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile.