迪克写道，我想写下我所爱的人，并将他们置于一个虚构的世界中，而不是我们实际拥有的世界，因为我们实际上没有符合我的标准的世界，迪克写了这些故事。在我的写作中，我什至质疑宇宙。我大声想是否是真实的，我大声想知道我们所有人都是真实的。
(I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards, Dick wrote of these stories. In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.)