I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

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.

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

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

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

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 faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.