Quotes from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ( 1968 )

"My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression."

"So I left the TV sound off and I sat down at my mood organ and I experimented. And I finally found a setting for despair…So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that's a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything..."

"I can't stand TV before breakfast." "Dial 888…The desire to watch TV, no matter what's on it."

'Emigrate or degenerate! The choice is yours!'

…it had been a costly war despite the valiant predictions of the Pentagon…In addition, no-one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won.

Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow ominvores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

"The population is small enough now; everyone, sooner or later, runs into a random checkpoint."

"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers of yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipplpe around your apartment, when you wake up next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more."

"There's the First Law of Kipple…'Kipple drives out nonkipple'."

What kind of world is it, he asked himself, when an android phones up a bounty hunter and offers him assistance?

"Don't you know, Deckard, that in the colonies they have android mistresses?" "It's illegal," Rick said, knowing the law about that. "Sure it's illegal. But most variations in sex are illegal. But people do it anyhow."

Isidore, then, had a momentary, strange hallucination; he saw briefly a frame of metal, a platform of pullies and circuits and batteries and turrets and gears - and then the slovenly shape of Roy Baty faded back into view.

"If I get them I'm going to buy a sheep." "You have a sheep. You've had one as long as I've known you." "It's electric."

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity."

"Mercer isn't a fake…Uinless reality is a fake."

"Sometimes it's better to do something wrong than right."