From Graham Greene's The Comedians, the epilogic letter from Doctor Magiot: "Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate. I know you and love you well, and I am writing this letter with some care because it may be the last chance I have communicating with you. It may never reach you, but I am sending it by what I believe to be a safe hand-- though there is no guarantee of that in the wild world we live in now (I do not mean my poor insignificant Haiti). I implore you-- a knock on the door may not allow me to finish this sentence, so take it as the last request of a dying man-- if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"