110 Quotes by Sergei Lukyanenko

I am fat, lazy and kind.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

I’d stopped giving a damn about the human world a long time ago. It’s our basis. Our cradle. But we are Others. We walk through closed doors and we maintain the balance of Good and Evil. There are pitifully few of us, and we can’t reproduce – it.

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

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

But I’m quite sure of one thing: If it’s possible to do something, sooner or later someone’s going to do it.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can’t push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

Evil goes unpunished for too often.