“If I had known it was harmless
I would have killed it myself.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 6 (p. 94)
Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 21 (p. 171)
Source: VALIS
Context: "Fear,” Jason said, “can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.”'
“How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.”
Source: Radio Free Albemuth
“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Source: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Variant: To live is to be hunted.
Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 27 (p. 213)
Source: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”
Source: Counter-Clock World
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him”
VALIS (1981)
Context: For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.
“Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.”
“It’s a lost art,” Hank said. “Maybe there’s an instruction manual on it.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 4 (p. 56)
“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Author’s Note (p. 276)
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977)
Source: A Scanner Darkly