[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.

One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.

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

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.

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

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.