Character: Хэл Шелтон (Hal Shelton)

A person who uses the carrot and stick method simultaneously emphasizes his influence and creates a feeling of mercy - this is how people get used to pleasing the tyrant, thereby trying to avoid punishment.

If you are aware of the bizarre whim of the enemy, if you understand his taste and sexual preferences, then in these exotic enclosures you need to set up your punishing nets, because sooner or later he will pay a visit to his sacred citadel. Instead of chasing a man through the back alleys, sniffing out his trail and getting tired of rat hunting, while risking becoming a target, you can lurk near your opponent's chosen lair and wait patiently.

Insight also knocks you down like a stormy ocean wave, and pulls you into its icy abysses even faster and more relentlessly.

Money is never delicious icing on the cake, it is always the main motive. In addition, money does not allow you to be the master of the situation. Real power is not at all in hard currency: if you don’t know the right people, you don’t know who to give on the paw to get information or reliable professional performers, then money is like useless pieces of paper.

Has anyone ever wondered how much easier it is to kill a person if his speech is incomprehensible to you? After all, his compassionate remarks are not able to break through to your heart and play on the strings of compassion.

Every mental wound, a terrible incident, an insignificant, at first glance, verbal slap in the face - they are like tiny invisible cracks on a mug, it seems that they are absolutely harmless, but one fine day, from the most gentle touch, a vessel, like a person, crumbles along these very notches ...

Words are like a Rubik's cube: they can be constantly rotated and never put together in the correct, true meaning.

Reality is absolute subjectivity, because everyone creates their own illusion, in which they are comfortable.

To have experience means to lose naivety, to dull the keenest interest.

To draw is to give shape to the fantasy.

The birth of a portrait is the death of a slate. When he dies, he becomes part of something bigger, like everything in this world.

In a crowd, it is easier to approach the victim, secretly wound her and leave unnoticed.

In fact, people simply suggest to themselves that it may be so, but not otherwise. Patterned thinking, gleaned from others, from books or movies. But whoever says anything is only his subjective opinion, and not the truth of the first instance. But believing a person, his authority, people begin to accept statements as the one and only possible truth. In fact, being just, say, a theater director is boring. But those who allowed to change their concept, putting on other people's glasses with someone else's experience, begin to be only someone or something one, and after years they look around, look around and in panic try to understand what the hell brought them here and how in general it so happened that everyday life became a torment? But people themselves assign themselves some kind of role and voluntarily put a label on themselves, fearing to face ridicule, misunderstanding, sidelong glances. They begin to voluntarily play with those toys that are offered to them by predecessors or public opinion. That is why there are so few individuals who do only what they consider acceptable to themselves - not everyone is ready to go against everyone in order to remain themselves. Fearing to lose something - power, money, respect - or someone - wife, parents, friends - almost everyone allows themselves to be ruled, exchanging themselves for such dubious values as love, trust, respect. And one day they discover that their loved ones are cheating on them, business partners are cheating, and friends are using. And the sacrifice - you yourself - shatters into dust. Ha ha ha. This is how to make deals with the devil - he will always take you and, of course, what he gave in return for your soul.

London is a conglomeration of the past, exposed in the pleasant light of concrete, glass and nebula, but underneath all this there are all the same vices, passions, fears and hopes. Everywhere the same thing, no matter what they say.