The Vital Abyss

Надежда остаётся в живых, даже растянувшись до толщины мономолекулярной плёнки.

There is nothing so destructive and also so easy to overlook as a bad idea.

Differences in status and wealth are always what drives war.

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice and monstrosity and metamorphosis. Necessity is the mother of all necessary things, to coin a tautology.