Top 19 Quotes by Philip K. Dick

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

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

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

The core of my writing is not art but truth.

The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.

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.

The Martians are always coming.

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.