Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.

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.

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.