My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

The beautiful thing about serialized drama is that the further you go, the deeper you go.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.