The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.
E. L. DoctorowIt proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.
E. L. DoctorowMost people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.
E. L. Doctorow