• 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 Abbott: 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 (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage