"I did. I was fed up with the things I'd seen in the United States, the very things I'd left Russia to avoid. The expansion of socialist New Deal policies, all while decrying communism; the misuse of science throughout the war; the censorship and reactionary nonsense governing our art, media, and literature. I chose to break away from that entirely."

He doesn't mean to give mini-speeches, but it happens with some regularity. And, frankly, nobody in the City has thus far seemed particularly interested in his ideals. She's a nice change from that.