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

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

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

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

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.

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

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.