What to do now, Father? I am going to die like a killer, and I do not even remember killing.”“You can pray, my son. You are in the hands of God now, ” said the good priest.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. - Eighth Amendment, United States Constitution

What you are about to witness is a blot upon the civilization of the twentieth century."- Sing Sing Deputy Warden Spencer Miller, Addressing Antonio Pontón’s execution witnesses on January 7, 1916

On Thanksgiving Day, during our family gathering, we pray you to have mercy on Antonio Pontón …

Dear Governor Whitman, … Our father is not a simple criminal. … He was harassed by more ideas than his mind could stand. …

Pardon me for this resolution … I know that this will be a disgrace that I bring to my people, but I cannot help it. Love is the blame for it. I go in peace ... pray for me ... good-bye all.

¡Hundieron el Maine!” said Manuel to his wife Etervina, as he read the newspaper on February 16, 1898. “They sank the Maine!

Manuel acquired as much land as he could afford and refused to sell it to anyone, even if he was not planting anything on it. “La tierra no se acaba” (“the land does not perish”), he often said.

Antonio’s will was cursed. Not once, but twice.

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?

A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way.

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

Never in my career have I got the support for what I'm doing, any more than I have on Fringe.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

If you're not doing it for Allah, then don't expect any help from Allah.

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.