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.

I am fat, lazy and kind.

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.

Life consists of nothing but exceptions.

I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.

All we can do is try not to fall.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.