Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.