"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'."
— Groucho Marx

"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."
— Mark Twain

"no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For every one behind bars, another ten deserved to be behind bars, but that would put one in ten Americans behind bars."
— Ted Dekker (BoneMan's Daughters)

"I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue."
— Quentin Tarantino

"you had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? you couldn't just count seiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself."
— Tommy Lee