#36:... Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangements of part of the Brain is a language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore, we are language. Why, then, do we not know this?

— Philip K. Dick

A law of survival, Eagle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish. . . Version of a timeless rule.

— Philip K. Dick

All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race had slowly evolved until it was in a position to operate things, run them as it saw fit. Now all at once it had been plunged back down the ladder again, prostrate before a Power against which they were children.

— Philip K. Dick

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 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.

— Philip K. Dick

A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fern wright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, easy being an angel. And then something happened. Something went wrong or broke down or failed. And they had become faced with the necessity of choosing not good or evil but the lesser of two evils, and so that had unhinged them and now each was a man.

— Philip K. Dick

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing, and yet she's still giving birth?"" Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.

— Philip K. Dick

A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Declared.

— Philip K. Dick

Am I racially kin to this man? Barnes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And - how many of us do know it?

— Philip K. Dick

An android,” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for."“Then,” Miss Left said, “you must be an android.

— Philip K. Dick

And," my dad concluded, calming down a little, "all our dignity consists in just that. I mean, man's little and can't fill time and space, but he sure can make use of the brain God gave him.

— Philip K. Dick