I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.

[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

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

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'