Author of quotes: Roger Zelazny

Chapter: 18

The desire to hear new gossip, no doubt, stopped in our family is not one fatal blow.

From any change, something always suffers.

While nature could do without any cities, the inhabitants thereof still requires something more than a cute cultural spaces. If the whole world was talked of Vishnu, would make citizens part of it into a wasteland, because in each there is something, eager to end somewhere, order and chaos.

Army, no matter how huge it may be in space, can resist only for a short period of time. One person, insignificant in the space can distribute their confrontation for many years, if he's lucky and he succeeds in transmitting its heritage.

- Do you want more wine?
- I'll get drunk.
- That's fine.

... Around continued to rage plaster vortices. Everything that could fall, lying on the floor. I even started to get used to these lightning, thunder and intermittent shudders of the house's business as usual. I think if you spend some time in such obstanovochka, one day all will cease to notice the constant crashing.

He was a good man. <...> He was not indifferent to human fate, the fate of the world. Well, as it is called in humans is compassion! He too was strongly developed sense of compassion. I think that's why he drank so much. He experienced within himself the suffering of others.

Let's drink to the future, she suggested.
For the future of drinking is not a sin.

But she did not answer, and, approaching the wall of the bar, poured a solid dose of "Jack Daniels" and a man knocked over a glass.

It is extremely difficult to examine himself as a stranger, so to speak, from the side. Perhaps that is why I have failed. What's yours is part of you and separate is impossible.

A visible enemy is not so terrible as our own inner weakness...

Anyone can break his word when it comes to the Kingdom.

Poor doctor, not born one of you, who would treat our family.