Philip K. Dick Quotes

For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.

Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs.

I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.

I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

Never get high on your own supply.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.