You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.

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

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.

A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.