When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.

We are our own gods and our own demons.

The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.