"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."

"I write about characters who are trying to survive in a world that's going crazy."

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

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

"Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood. What's dead in there still looks out. It's not just the body looking at you with nothing in it; there's still somethi…"