lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

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.

Objectivity? I always have 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.

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

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

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.