Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind.

This rehearsal will end, the performance will end, the singers will die, eventually the last score of music will be destroyed in one wya or another; finally the name Mozart will vanish, the dust will have won. If not on this planet then another. We can evade it awhile.

The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'

Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.

There is certainly no hope left of getting away. And it isn't even terrible; it's possibly funny, if even that. It's embarrassing. That's all. A little embarrassing to realize that I no longer control my life, that the major decisions have already been made, long before I was conscious that any change was occurring.

He felt the craving within him, the need to be entertained. And they all felt this way; the settlement yearned for the bizarre.

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

This is a cardboard universe, and if you lean too long or too heavily against it, you fall through.

Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.