Philip K. Dick

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.”

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

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

“A weirdo is someone who follows his own heart. I'm a weirdo.”

“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this establishment. 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.”

“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.”

“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”

“Everything is a test.”

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”

“Insanity—a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”

“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”

“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which awaits his fellow man.”

“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations... So I ask, in my writing, What is real?”

“The most terrible thing in the world is memory.”

“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”

“The electric things have their lives, too. Paltry as those lives are.”