Things On The Whole Are

Knowing Few Children Of My Age With Whom To Compare Notes, I Envied The Children Of Literature To Whom Interesting Things Were Always Happening.

I Discovered That Human Nature Was Not, As I Had Always Supposed, A Fixed And Unalterable Entity, That Wars Are Not Caused By A Natural Urge In Men To Fight, That Ownership Of Land And Factories Is Not Necessarily The Natural Reward Of Greater Wisdom And Energy.

Objectivity? I've Always Had An Objective.

Prison Walls Are Meant Not Only To Keep Convicts In, But To Keep The Would-be Investigator Out.

The Prison System, Inherently Unjust And Inhumane, Is The Ultimate Expression Of Injustice And Inhumanity In The Society At Large.