

“I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?”
― The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
― The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

“Also, I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue--the clue--lies there. I'm always ferreting out elliptical points, odd angles. What I write doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There is fun and religion and psychotic horror strewn about like a bunch of hats. Also, there is a social or sociological drift--rather than toward the hard sciences, the overall impression is childish but interesting.”
― The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
― The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
― Martian Time-Slip
― Martian Time-Slip

“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”
― VALIS
― VALIS

“Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.”
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