I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.

One of the principle things life has taught me is that we always have a choice. When we say we "can't," we usually mean we're just not willing to pay the price.

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine.

At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again.