“Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.”
“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”
“But try as you might to protect people from danger, you cannot keep them from their true nature.”
“I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.”
“We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. ”
“It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.”