Philip K. Dick

people claim to remember past lives i claim to remember a different very different present life i know of no one who has ever made this claim before.

I think I once experienced a track in which the savior returned. but I experienced it just briefly. I am not there now I'm not sure I ever was certainly I may never be again I grieve for that loss...

the kingdom were it established here would not be visible to those outside it i offer the idea that in more modern terms what is meant that some of us will travel laterally to that better world. and some will not they will remain stuck along the lateral axis which means that for them the kingdom did not come not in their al alternative world. and yet meantime it did come in ours. so it comes and yet it does not come. amazing if you've followed my conjectures about the overlapping of these alternate worlds.

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

What an undercover narcotics agent fears most is not that he will be shot or beaten up but that he will be slipped a great hit of some psychedelic that will roll an endless horror feature film in his head for the remainder of his life.

He described feeling as though he had been transported to a “gray world” that differed from our own, where the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, and even the people were gray.

He also reported experiencing vivid hallucinations, including seeing a “black iron prison” in his living room and encountering mysterious, otherworldly beings.

My reasons are moral.' And they said 'Then get out of this university. and don't ever come back.' And I I I did. and I left and I never came back. and I I you know it would be really wonderful if I could say that I did it out of some lofty idealistic motive to protest war. but I just couldn't put that damn rifle back together. and I could not understand things like creeping through the bushes. and falling on some unsuspecting prey and other military tactics that were regarded as highly important

the god of this world is evil

I am inevitably persuaded by every argument that is brought to bare

When PKD went to a psychotherapist he was told he was an alcoholic (despite his being a teetotaler)

I didn't see any reason then i don't see any reason now i didn't think it was my boss his business but I knew some very very fine poets u there in the Bay Area poets. that are really some of America's finest poets. and I was very proud of them as my friends. and um they they wanted me to be gay. and I didn't want to be gay. so they they thought they thought I was strange because I was not gay. and the people in my store thought I was strange because I knew gay people and because I read books.

my house was broken into my files were blown open my my papers were stolen. we never found out who did it my attorney said it was the government there was no doubt that it was the government. but what they were looking for I don't know what they thought I was doing I don't know i don't even know if it was the government.

to be an intellectual, to be a writer, it to wear a sign on your back saying I'm an enemy of the state.

The term [eggheads] originated in Nazi Germany. Most people don't know that. I happen to know this because I did a lot of research into Nazi Germany for my novel The Man In The High Castle.

I 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.

Yet, he stated, women are all sneaky, crafty and wicked.

Not only that, but the moment a man has the answer to his life he dies.

Hemingway, Phil thinks, actually believed he took his rifle out for some other purpose than suicide and not until he actually shot himself was he aware that that was his intent. Not until he had actually lived out his life did he take it. He died, in effect, exactly as did Gertrude Stein.

On Thursdays and Saturdays I'd think it was God. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, I'd think it was extraterrestrials. Some times I'd think it was the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences trying out their psychotronic microwave telepathic transmissions.