Philip K. Dick Quotes

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

... a paranoid person with delusions.

Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Fear does not have to be real to be powerful.

For like four or five months of my life I was too scared to like, move around and reach out for things because I was worried that I'd my hands would run into glass, like I could reach up and if I reached up and knocked on the air it would make a noise. I couldn't look at the sky because I was worried that I see a crack.

I've always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it'll be like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people.

Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?