People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.