"Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. ... When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the…"

"I am a rebel. I always have been, and I always will be."

"I am a communist. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm not afraid of it. I believe in it. I believe in a world where everyone is equal, where everyone has enough to eat, where everyone has a home, where everyon…"

"Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors."

"The human race is a wonderful race. It's only the individuals who are terrible."