# The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

- Author: [Philip K. Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-transmigration-of-timothy-archer

## Quotes

> I realized, then, that I had stood without intending to. Flight reaction, I said to myself. Instinctive. Upon experiencing close adversaries. The lizard part of the brain.

p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-transmigration-of-timothy-archer/i-realized-then.md)

> Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-transmigration-of-timothy-archer/barefoot-conducts-his.md)

> The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-transmigration-of-timothy-archer/the-trouble-with.md)

> Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

p. 236 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-transmigration-of-timothy-archer/madness-like-small.md)