Top 19 Quotes by Philip K. Dick

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

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

The core of my writing is not art but truth.

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 am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

The Martians are always coming.

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

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.