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

To arrive is to be in prison.

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

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

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

Me, I’m here because I can’t get out, and while I’m locked in the asylum I might as well take notes on the inmates.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

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

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

“Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail."

You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes – the walls, the walls!

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.