Jack Henry Abbott

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

— Jack Henry Abbott

“I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.”

— Jack Henry Abbott

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

— Jack Henry Abbott

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

— Jack Henry Abbott

“Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately…

— Jack Henry Abbott

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

— Jack Henry Abbott

“I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, "I am only human"--as though that were some kind of justification for…

— Jack Henry Abbott

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

— Jack Henry Abbott

“The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall…

— Jack Henry Abbott

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect…

— Jack Henry Abbott

“Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of…

— Jack Henry Abbott

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

— Jack Henry Abbott