“Anyway, Thoreau was in jail because he wouldn’t pay a tax to support the Mexican War. He didn’t believe in the war. And Emerson came to jail to see him. ‘Henry,’ he said, ‘why are you here?’ And Thoreau said, ‘Ralph, why aren’t you here?’ ” “I should want to go to jail?” said Paul, trying to get some sort of message for himself out of the anecdote. “You shouldn’t let fear of jail keep you from doing what you believe in.”
