" The watchman smoked and calmly looked into the distance. He did not believe in God after so many worship services, but he knew for certain that nothing would come of Zakhar Pavlovich's work. People have been living in the world for a long time and have already invented everything. However, Zakhar Pavlovich thought just the opposite: as long as any natural raw material goes untouched by human hands, people are far from having invented everything. "
― Andrei Platonov , Chevengur