Ivan Kurokhtin

“The gun had been well cared for. Its aim was true. Remembering the podgy, underexercised looks of the gunslingers (policemen) he had taken these weapons from, it seemed that they cared better for the weapons they wore than for the weapons they were. It seemed a strange way to behave, but of course this was a strange world and Roland could not judge…”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
― Frederik Pohl

“Эпиграф имеет целью убедить читателя, что автор не только пишет, но порой ещё и читает, причём умные вещи, из которых и берёт эпиграфы.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski

“Life is wasted on the living.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe