Beauty is whatever gives joy.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.