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

I had noticed that I had no difficulty conversing with robots, because absolutely nothing surprised them. They were incapable of surprise. A very sensible quality.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

"And perhaps Solaris is the cradle of your divine child," Snow went on, with a widening grin that increased the number of lines round his eyes. Solaris could be the first phase of the despairing God. Perhaps its intelligence will grow enormously. All the contents of our Solarist libraries could be just a record of his teething troubles…