Jail's like school but you can't leave.

FALDER. [Almost eagerly] Yes, sir, but you don’t understand what prison is. It’s here it gets you. He grips his chest.

Throw him in jail.’ What jail? The one he is in already, since he is there against his will; and if he is there against his will then he is imprisoned.

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

Life is a prison if you cannot leave it as you like.

Jail is such a-- really a way that a grown-up would punish a child. "You go in there and you stay in there!"

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

What prison is and unfreedom is, is the extraction of time.

The formula for prison is a lack of space counterbalanced by a surplus of time. This is what really bothers you, that you can't win. Prison is lack of alternatives, and the telescopic predictability of the future is what drives you crazy.

Security without liberty is called prison.

This planet is a penal colony and nobody is allowed to leave.

I will throw you into prison.’ ‘Correction – it is my body you will throw there.