Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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