Stalin: Your report. On Savinkov.

Dzerzhinsky: He took his own life.

Stalin: Why?

Dzerzhinksy: I think it dawned on him he would not be sitting in this room eating sardines from a tin . . . and ruling Russia. However, I do think Artuzov’s presence at the jail deserves explanation. — Ace of Spies (Felix calling a liar a liar without doing so)