“We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.”
Tom Stoppard

"Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."

Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985

«В фантастических романах главное - это было радио. При нём ожидалось счастье человечества. И вот радио есть, а счастья нет». (И. Ильф)