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.

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.

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

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.

People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.

When in doubt pray.

The door that nobody else will go in at seems always to swing open widely for me.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]

Commerce is really as interesting as nature.

This president [Barack Obama] is someone who has done more to protect and keep together families with DACA and then with DAPA.

What I had later learned was that the FBI knew I was going to New York a couple days after the raid.

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.