A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

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

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

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.

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.