We have named all the stars and all the planet, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve! - Stanisław Lem

There was a time we tormented one another with excessive honesty in the naive belief it would save us.

even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric, coarsely sensory-based, anthropomorphic understanding of the world around us.

I wanted to stop her; in the darkness and silence we occasionally managed to throw off our despair for a while by making each other forget.