Sergei Lukyanenko

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.

Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning

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

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.

Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.

The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehave no right to do that__e never have had, not since the creation of the world.