Lernet Holenia Quotes

#1. Neither need we fear to diminish a miracle by explaining it.

Christopher Wren

#2. As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

William Gibson

#3. Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

John Updike

#4. Sleep: the moon still hasn't moved the width of a constellation since you were a girl. Since you have become a woman, the stars that stand above the halls of Palladios have not yet disappeared behind the domes of San Marco. But only since then has the world become the world.

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

#5. We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

George Pierce Baker

#6. A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

C. Everett Koop