Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. Jack Henry Abbott
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. Jack Henry Abbott
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. Jack Henry Abbott
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. Jack Henry Abbott
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. Jack Henry Abbott
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. Jack Henry Abbott
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. Jack Henry Abbott
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. Jack Henry Abbott
There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill. Jack Henry Abbott
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. Jack Henry Abbott
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. Jack Henry Abbott
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. Arthur Miller
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? Arthur Miller
He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world. Arthur Miller
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. Arthur Miller
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. Arthur Miller