Jack Henry Abbott quotes

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. (Jack Henry Abbott)
I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. View quote
Jack Henry Abbott
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. View quote
Jack Henry Abbott
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. View quote
Jack Henry Abbott
I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. View quote
Jack Henry Abbott