I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.