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The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run – will not try to escape.

I won’t talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I’m glad I’m out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

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.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

To be in prison so long, it’s difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn’t see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.

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