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Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening ...

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

The prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

Lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

Objectivity? I always have an objective.