Jack Henry Abbott Quotes
- There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
- The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they…
- Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
- I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
- I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
- I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a…
- To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
- When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.