Stanislaw Lem

“Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.”

“A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.”

“Wandering across the vast room, I stopped at a set of shelves as high as the ceiling, and holding about six hundred volumes - all classics on the history of Soalris, starting with the nine volumes of Giese's monumental and already relatively obsolescent monograph. Display for its own sake was improb...”

“Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way.”

“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.”

“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”