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..

Objectivity? I always have an objective..

the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to chan….

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

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly sum….

Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sl….

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

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and wh….

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

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

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

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

One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or ….

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

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in….

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgit….

I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men t….

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

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

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

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