Quotes from Stanislaw Lem

But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.

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

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.

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

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

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.