A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

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.

I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.

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 felt compelled to blow the whistle on the penal system, under the delusion that doing so might result in some change, or at least save a few women from the same fate. Eternally naïve, that's me.

The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.

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