… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

The words are easy - most of them have already been invented.

When in doubt, choose to live.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.