“The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity.”

“I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, "I am only human"--as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.”

“I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.”

“One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.”

“Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.”

“When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control it all.”

“I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.”