“It was suicide, wasn't it?""In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate.""Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw?" murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip."Exactly, my lord.”

“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”

“Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die. ”

“They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide. ”

“Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.”

“People always think that a suicide is commited for one reason. But it is perfectly possible to commit a suicide for two reasons.”