Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1928 Death: March 2, 1982
People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, ….
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific..
Reality denied comes back to haunt..
When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion..
I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I pu….
A man is an angel that has gone deranged..
Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm goin….
The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I s….
I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises ….
This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power..
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus..
Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic g….
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans..
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive..
Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph..
The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for..
How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear..
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious group….
Every junkie, he thought, is a recording..
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others..
Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on..