Disarming an idealist was easy

Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen.

The unseen is almost always underlined with the unsaid.

As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?

I could live without television, but not without books.

We must be vigilant, even of each other, but mostly of ourselves. What my time in the cave taught me is that the ultimate life-and-death struggle is with ourselves. Foreign invaders might kill my body, but only I could kill my spirit.