# Quote — Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

> 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.

- Author: [Philip K. Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick.md)
- Book: [The Transmigration of Timothy Archer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-transmigration-of-timothy-archer.md)
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