Prison Quotes

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

And if I don’t be there by morning, she’ll know that I must’ve spent the night in jail.

If I don’t do this film. I’ll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.

If you’re white and you’re rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you’re poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.

Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

I started seeing how I wanted my story to be told. Going to jail is one of the best things that happened to me. It helped me get my mind right.

I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.

I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.