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

It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

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