As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

And what if there’s nothing in there?’ You die and there’s nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

Jak by powiedział Puszkin, służba muzom nie znosi pośpiechu.

El ser humano ha sido siempre un asesino muy superior al resto de criaturas".

But if they have a flashlight, it means they're human and not some kind of monsters from the surface, ' objected Artyom."I don't know what's worse, " said Melnik, cutting off Artyom.

(and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of her hips)

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.