One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time tra… - Philip K. Dick

It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.

The silence, all at once, penetrated; he felt his arms grow vague. In the absence of the Batys and Pris he found himself fading out, becoming strangely like the inert television set which he had just unplugged. You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean, before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it’s changed. You can’t go back, he thought. You can’t go from people to nonpeople. In panic he thought, I’m dependent on them. Thank god they stayed.

Emigrate or Degenerate.