“Be in control of your piece, Jo. The minute it takes control of you, you’re dead,” Willie would tell me.”

“Engrave your pieces, Jo, and they’ll always find their way back to you,” said Willie.”

“You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.”

“You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.”

“Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.”

“The life we've fashioned in this time is a singular one. One minute you're a child and you have no control over your life, the next you're an adult with responsibilities and no control over your life, and then you're an elder with wisdom, a wealth of experience...and no control over yourself or your life.”