“Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.”

“Our saints have always been theives and murderers. That's the proof of the loftiness of their hearts. (spoken by Ulrich's neighbor)”

“Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.”

“I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love.Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love.Even so, you have always been connected to me. Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest. I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.”

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”