She watches him for hours. She wants to be the sheets that cover his toes. She wants to be the ceiling separating him from the sky: above him, the first thing he sees before and after dreams. She wants to be the open window letting in the light for him.

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World – a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

It’s hard to look the people you love in the face when they’ve seen you fuck up everything you touch. Sometimes, it’s easier to rebuild your life if you’re with someone who’s been as low as you’ve been.

It’s important to let your subjects be themselves.

In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive

Some people have different ways than yours of having fun. You can’t judge ’em, you can’t dismiss ’em, and you can’t say, ‘what an idiot, what a food.’ You just have to accept their truth of their harmony with what they wanna do in their heart. As long as it’s not hurting anyone.

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

say you are conservative – eminently conservative – while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one

john Brown’s effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.