I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

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.

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

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.

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

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.