My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

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 already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist.

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.

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

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