Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.