“Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.”

“I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.”

“But I'd take you because you're the best part of my day, Rory. Always have been and always will be.”

“Of all the titles that I've been privileged to have, the title of 'dad' has always been the best.”

“People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.”

“Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop. We're in a country where everything that can be falsified has been falsified: paintings in museums, gold ingots, bus tickets. The counterrevolution and the revolution fight with salvos of falsification: the result is that nobody can be sure what is true and what is false, the political police simulate revolutionary actions and the revolutionaries disguise themselves as policemen."And who gains by it, in the end?"It's too soon to say. We have to see who can best exploit the falsifications, their own and those of the others: whether it's the police or our organization."The taxi driver is pricking up his ears. You motion Corinna to restrain herself from making unwise remarks.But she says, "Don't be afraid. This is a fake taxi. What really alarms me, though, is that there is another taxi following us."Fake or real?"Fake, certainly, but I don't know whether it belongs to the police or to us.”