"Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not allowed to do so much as touch your spouse, your parents, your children. The system does everything w..."
- Damien Echols
"Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand."
- T.E. Lawrence
"Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement."
- Peter Straub
"As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university professor, I realize that this was a premonition that once I entered college I would never get out, and ..."
- James Kakalios