″‘If the ants can do it, Nicodemus says, if the bees can do it, so can we.’
‘Do what?’
‘Why, live without stealing, of course. That’s the whole idea. That’s the Plan.‘”
“He wished he could go back in time to the turning point, the moment inside the treasury when he was smitten with envy of the King’s wealth. If history could be unwound and he were there again, he would consider the consequences and he wouldn’t steal.”