Jack Abbott

"The world is amazed at how 'cruel' it is! And then, when the 'chips are down' , Sartre, who has never gambled but is enamored of the terminology of a kind of daring that doesn't involve getting his as…"

"I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society."

"The intelligence recedes, no more a tool of learning - because knowledge is based on experience - but a tool of the outside world it is deprived of knowing. It tries to contact other minds by telepath…"

"But a kind of genius can come of this deprivation of sensation, of experience. It has been mistaken as naïve intelligence, when in fact it is empty intelligence, pure intelligence. The composition of …"

"Even European philosophers have taken notice that most of what we take for knowledge is nothing but bias and prejudice."

"The mind does not regulate its own condition. Mental depression, for example, is a state of mind caused by the body. In a cell in the hole it only seems that there is a separation of mind and body - i…"

"Ingels: This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release."

"Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself."