“My Mind Is More Important Than My Possessions”
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
A selection of Philip K Dick quotes from the Paul Williams book Only Apparently Real :
The police informally said, “We don’t want a crusader here in Marin County. You better move away or you’ll get a bullet in your back some night. Or worse.” I was shucked by deadly people playing a deadly game.
I’m sure within my circle there was at least one agent provocateur.
…your consciousness is built up on introjected moral values that authority figures have deliberately laid on you.
The unconscious relates to the entire world, the whole panoply of the universe. It learns from birds, it learns from ads it sees, it learns from television commercials, it learns from everything at once, not just from a few narrow authority figures…
I could never mock my characters, for screwing up, especially. See, these people are no longer freaks to me, I mean in the sense of being incompetent and fucking up their lives. Because I had completely fucked up my life, I was completely incompetent, and I loved my characters for their incompetence, you see? I could never write down to my characters. Also it made me need my characters more, as compatriots, friends, cohorts…
…my novels are my make-believe world, and they’re full of my friends. …
…it makes me wonder, you know, are these characters really real? Do I think I invent them, but in actual fact I am merely picking them up from somewhere?
You know, the greatest incentive to write is that you can’t figure out the universe. And you keep trying to do it by writing about it. You can coerce it into making sense by writing a book that makes sense, but what happens is, your books don’t make any sense either.
My mind is more important than my possessions.
When things got really bad, miserable and wretched, you know, or I got really frightened, I began to blank out, retrospectively.
You’ve got three possibilities. (The Universe) is either malicious; or it is completely uninterested and cold, in the sense of it doesn’t care, you get ground up in the machinery and it doesn’t notice you; or that it actually has a certain concern for you, and will do - make efforts, if you will only notice its proferring of help, but you must notice its proferring of help.
I didn’t really groove with the universe. Now, I had a lot of fears that the universe would discover just how different I was from it. My only suspicion about it was that it would find out the truth about me, and its reaction would be perfectly normal: It would get me.
There are no private lives. …one of the biggest transformations we have seen in human life in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private.
