With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.