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

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

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

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

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.

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