" Did you know that Ubik is true, and we’re in a sort of cave, like Plato said, and they’re showing us endless funky films? And now and then reality breaks through, as in Ubik, from our friend who was here once and then died, but has turned back … he talked something about a new view of the Platonic forms, the archetypal forms. But he was unable to explain. "

― Philip K. Dick