“there is very little connection between law and justice.” — Alexander Masters Justice Copy Share Image
“I have a great sense of Stuart and silence on these nights. The village, wrapped in sleep; owls glide between the yew… — Alexander Masters Silence Copy Share Image
“And it is strange: a few moments after the cars that brought us down drive off, I become aware that already I… — Alexander Masters Time Copy Share Image
Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road… — Alexander Masters Abuse Copy Share Image
“You'd think the homeless would despise the rest of us, but it seems the thing they want to do most is talk.… — Alexander Masters History Copy Share Image
I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse. — Alexander Masters Sometimes Copy Share Image
“Disobedience is one of the few tricks you have left to hang on to the idea that you continue to exist distinctively… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Stuart seems like an irritable fisherman. He bobs about, on the disruption of his life, a small, unsteady figure, fishing for… — Alexander Masters Anger Copy Share Image
And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal… — Alexander Masters Abstract Copy Share Image
“Is this what real homelessness is like? Not just a particular set of roof and walls gone, but a sense of the… — Alexander Masters Death Copy Share Image
It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know… — Alexander Masters Answers Copy Share Image
“As his mother drove him away on the day he was let out, Stuart broke the cardinal prison rule: like Lot's wife,… — Alexander Masters Marriage Copy Share Image
“Revelation comes with these misunderstandings. Stuart's life and way of thinking momentarily exposed. Like a break in the hedgerow during the country… — Alexander Masters Way of thinking Copy Share Image
“Tell you what,’ Stuart goads across the pavement at the huge officer who’s rolled down his window to wish us good-night, ‘since… — Alexander Masters Crime Copy Share Image
“When life is this dull, you have to invent purpose. Collecting torn-up newspaper gives you a hobby, provides an anchoring intimacy with… — Alexander Masters Life Copy Share Image
“Ruth once told me when I went to visit her at HMP Highpoint that it is surprising how much of what you… — Alexander Masters Identity Copy Share Image
“Stuart is conscientious about names. He believes they are important to a person's self-respect and, to Stuart, there is nothing more important… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
“What is left of you once your clothes have had their say?” — Alexander Masters Fashion Copy Share Image
“Homelessness–it’s not about not having a home. It’s about something being seriously fucking wrong.” — Alexander Masters Home Copy Share Image
“If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It… — Alexander Masters Death Copy Share Image
For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their… — Alexander Masters Believe Copy Share Image
“After the service, a crowd gathered by the grave. It is not a pauper's grave. It is the sort of grave that… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
“I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and… — Alexander Masters Bad thing Copy Share Image
“But one of Stuart's most personable (and most annoying) qualities is his refusal to judge strangers until he knows them, especially if… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
