No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.

Man is what he reads.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

Over the longer term, the commercial contracts are going to be more lucrative and larger, but over the short term there is some softness in the market.