His plan? To pass out weapons to slaves, so they could overthrow their masters. Suicide. - Kurt Vonnegut

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there. </br> The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.