“We have not many wills, but only one --it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.”

“Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand the respect of governments, and perhaps was the generating clout against encroachments on the spiritual protections for speech, assembly, and so on. It might turn out that without the right to possess we are not sure we really have the right to speak and to be.”

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”

“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.”

“Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.”

“I only ask you one thing- don't trust nobody”

“I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through the door.”