Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.

Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.

When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.

Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.