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.
Jack AbbottWhen 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.
Jack AbbottImagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
Jack Abbott