The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I feel my typewriters, my table, my chair to have that assurance of a solid world, where things take up space, where is not the endless emptiness of insubstantial thought that leads to nowhere but itself. My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.