"I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete- that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theater Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a spla

Perhaps the men of genius are the only true men. In all the history of the race there have been only a few thousand real men. And the rest of us --- what are we? Teachable animals. Without the help of the real man, we should have found out almost nothing at all. Almost all the ideas with which we are familiar could never have occurred to minds like ours. Plant the seeds there and they will grow; but our minds could never spontaneously have generated them. (Aldous Huxley from "Young Archimedes

When you're already serving a life sentence with no chance of parole, what else can they take away?

They can threaten to throw you into solitary confinement and strip away all human contact.