“We’re not exactly heavenly angels. More like prison inmates with wings.”

“The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.”

“There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.”

“A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.”

“There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings”

“The vast majority of the inmates, however, heard the news, pretended to be shocked and sad, but actually felt relieved because once more the exterminating angel had passed over Villete, and they had been spared.”